vivisection

/vˌɪvɪsˈɛkʃən/

[noun] [adjective]

Vivisection

[NOUN]

the scientific and experimental operations performed on live animals

a very harsh and thorough examination or analysis

vivisection

[ADJECTIVE]

of the nature of or expressing a petition

Examples

1. Émile Zola credited Diderot's vivisections of society as the foundation of the naturalism that characterized his and Balzac's novels.

2. But already in Greek antiquity the practice of human vivisection for medical research raised an outcry, in some quarters, at least.

3. They have tried out several different pathogens and the development has included vivisection on live human test objects.

4. So if we add up the animals that are raised and killed in labs, so for vivisection, for clothing, in shelters, that would be a number that will be five times lower than the amount of chickens that die in factory farms before reaching slaughter because of the condition.