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From Latin vīvus (“alive”) + sectiō (“cutting”). Compare French vivisection. See also vivid and section.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
vivisection
vi·vi·sec·tionToday it means: The act or instance of cutting, surgery, or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation. Full definition →