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vivisection
This term carries a heavy emotional and ethical weight, typically appearing in contexts of moral conflict, legal debate, or animal rights activism. It evokes a clinical yet visceral image of surgical intervention on a sentient being, often implying a lack of anesthesia or a disregard for the subject's suffering to achieve a scientific goal.
While technically a medical procedure, the word is frequently used as a pejorative or a point of contention in philosophical arguments regarding the boundary between scientific progress and cruelty. In a figurative sense, it can describe the act of analyzing something in an overly clinical or destructive manner, effectively killing the subject to understand how it works.
Meanings
Examples
The university board debated the ethics of vivisection in medical research.
I cannot support any form of vivisection regardless of the potential benefits.
Many early breakthroughs in surgery were unfortunately based on vivisection.
Is vivisection still necessary given the rise of computer modeling?
The activists gathered outside the lab to protest against vivisection.
He felt a deep sense of guilt after participating in the vivisection experiment.
Strict laws now regulate the practice of vivisection to minimize animal suffering.
The textbook describes the history of vivisection in the nineteenth century.
We must find an alternative to vivisection to ensure ethical scientific progress.
We must find an alternative to vivisection to ensure ethical scientific progress.