How do you use Vivisection in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like operation or surgery, plus the exact meaning.
Vivisection in a sentence
Vivisection meaning
The act or instance of cutting, surgery, or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
Using Vivisection
- The main meaning on this page is: The act or instance of cutting, surgery, or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
- Useful related words include: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure.
- In the example corpus, vivisection often appears in combinations such as: vivisection and.
Context around Vivisection
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vivisection
- In this selection, "vivisection" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, live, using, performing, scene and albeit stand out and add context to how "vivisection" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a vivisection scene will and by performing vivisection on animals. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vivisection" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vivisection
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The prosecution’s vivisection of his image worked. (8 words)
Francois Magendie studied the properties of CSF by vivisection. (9 words)
But hey, you probably deny the Rape of Nanjing, live vivisection. (11 words)
Although he conducted some of his studies using vivisection and others through the dissection of corpses, his most illustrative efforts appear to have been based on the use of the microscope. (31 words)
This was a new kind of study, because previously experiments had been “acute,” meaning that the dog went through vivisection and was ultimately killed in the process. (27 words)
Join People for Reason in Science and Medicine and grassroots activist in this global day of protest against vivisection (the use of live animals in experiments). (26 words)
Example sentences (10)
The prosecution’s vivisection of his image worked.
A vivisection scene will go down in history as one of the most graphic sequences of violence on screen.
But hey, you probably deny the Rape of Nanjing, live vivisection.
Join People for Reason in Science and Medicine and grassroots activist in this global day of protest against vivisection (the use of live animals in experiments).
Vivisection — albeit pejoratively connoting torture and exploitation of living animals — is essentially a method of experimentation for studying physiology and anatomical structure.
Although he conducted some of his studies using vivisection and others through the dissection of corpses, his most illustrative efforts appear to have been based on the use of the microscope.
Francois Magendie studied the properties of CSF by vivisection.
He compiled much of the knowledge obtained by previous writers, and furthered the inquiry into the function of organs by performing vivisection on animals.
The association grew in prominence during the 19th century, coupled with growing Quaker concerns in connection with alcohol consumption, anti-vivisection and social purity.
This was a new kind of study, because previously experiments had been “acute,” meaning that the dog went through vivisection and was ultimately killed in the process.
Common combinations with vivisection
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: