noun
- the practice of performing operations on living animals for scientific research
Usage: scientific; medical research
Examples
- The medical school strictly regulates vivisection procedures.
- Animal rights activists protested against vivisection at the research facility.
- Modern alternatives to vivisection include computer modeling and cell cultures.
- The scientist defended vivisection as necessary for developing new treatments.
- Ethical guidelines govern all vivisection research at the university.
- The debate over vivisection continues in the scientific community.