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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne