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The act or instance of cutting, surgery, or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
From Latin vīvus (“alive”) + sectiō (“cutting”). Compare French vivisection. See also vivid and section.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
կենդանահատում
(kendanahatum)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Azerbaijani:
diriyarma
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Catalan:
vivisecció
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Chinese Mandarin:
活體解剖 /活体解剖
(huótǐ jiěpōu)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Cornish:
bewdreghyans
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Danish:
vivisektion
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Dutch:
vivisectie
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Esperanto:
vivisekcio
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Finnish:
vivisektio
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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French:
vivisection
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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German:
Vivisektion
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Greek:
ζωοτομία
(zootomía)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Hungarian:
elevenboncolás
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Hungarian:
élveboncolás
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Ido:
vivdisseko
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Japanese:
生体解剖
(seitaikaibō)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Korean:
생체 해부
(saengche haebu)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Norwegian Bokmål:
viviseksjon
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
viviseksjon
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Polish:
wiwisekcja
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Portuguese:
vivissecção
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Portuguese:
vivisseção
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Russian:
вивисе́кция
(vivisékcija)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Russian:
живосече́ние
(živosečénije)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Spanish:
vivisección
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Swedish:
vivisektion
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
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Tamil:
உடற்கூறாய்வு
(uṭaṟkūṟāyvu)
— act of invasive treatment of a living organism
