Usually means: Dissection of living organisms, experimentation.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word vivisection:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. vivisection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vivisection: Merriam-Webster
  3. vivisection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vivisection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vivisection: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vivisection: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vivisection, vivisection: Wordnik
  8. vivisection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vivisection: Wiktionary
  10. vivisection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vivisection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vivisection: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vivisection: Dictionary.com
  14. vivisection: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. vivisection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Vivisection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Vivisection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. vivisection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. vivisection: Rhymezone
  20. Vivisection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. vivisection: FreeDictionary.org
  22. vivisection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vivisection: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vivisection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. vivisection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. vivisection: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vivisection: Catholic Encyclopedia

(Note: See vivisectional as well.)

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▸ noun:  The act or instance of cutting, surgery, or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.

Similar:
vivisectorium, autovivisection, callisection, viscerotomy, viscerotome, evisceration, dissection, venesection, vibrissectomy, transection, more...

Opposite:
in vitro testing, non-animal testing

Types:
experiment, dissection, autopsy, procedure, more...

Adjectives:
anti, human, animal, spiritual, moral, slow, psychological, mental, literary, political, painful


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Similar:
vivisectorium, autovivisection, callisection, viscerotomy, viscerotome, evisceration, dissection, venesection, vibrissectomy, transection, more...

Opposite:
in vitro testing, non-animal testing

Types:
experiment, dissection, autopsy, procedure, more...

Adjectives:
anti, human, animal, spiritual, moral, slow, psychological, mental, literary, political, painful



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