1. a person who performs vivisection (experiments on living animals)
Usage: scientific

Examples

• The vivisector carefully monitored the animal’s vital signs during the procedure.
• Animal rights activists protested outside the laboratory where the vivisector worked.
• The medical school trained future vivisectors in proper experimental techniques.
• Critics argued that the vivisector’s methods were unnecessarily cruel.
• The vivisector published findings that advanced cancer research.
• New regulations required vivisectors to minimize animal suffering.