Noun
The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLiterary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days. Stephen Fry
The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements. C. S. Lewis
There can be no question that the practice of vivisection hardens the sensibility of the operator and begets indifference to the infliction of pain, as well as great carelessness in judging of its severity. Henry Jacob Bigelow
Watch the students at a vivisection. It is the blood and suffering, not the science, that rivet their breathless attention. If hospital service makes young students less tender of suffering, vivisection deadens their humanity, and begets indifference to it. Henry Jacob Bigelow
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science as they now do to burning at the stake in the name of religion. Henry Jacob Bigelow
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. Source: Internet