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vivisection
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tags: [medical]
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Definition:the process of cutting into live animals in order to advance physiological knowledge
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WHEN I first gave my mind to vivisections, as a means of discovering the motions and uses of the heart, and sought to discover these from actual inspection, and not from the writings of others, I found the task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God.
William Harvey. On The Motion of The Heart And Blood In Animals (1628)
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She would not slow down for another person and would vivisect crowds of NYU students or old women with their laundry carts, creating a wind on either side her.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.250 (2002)
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Arty: What are you doin' in there, pal?
Larry: I'm vivisecting a choir boy—why don't you call John Tesh?
HBO. The Larry Sanders Show, season 1: A Brush With (the Elbow of) Greatness (1992)
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we were constantly in the habit of maintaining that vivisection didn't really hurt, and that rabbits or dogs rather enjoyed the process than otherwise;
Grant Allen. Strange Stories.
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Had I been born where laws are less strict and tastes less dainty, I should treat myself to a slow vivisection of those two, as an evening’s amusement.’
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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I would be entertained at tedious vivisecting parties that generally ended with Charlotte or Valeria weeping in my bleeding arms
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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