Associations to the word «Vivisection»

Wiktionary

VIVISECTION, noun. The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.

Dictionary definition

VIVISECTION, noun. The act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats