vivisection

English

Etymology

Latin vivus alive + English section: compare French vivisection. See vivid, and section

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪvɪsɛkʃən/

Noun

vivisection (countable and uncountable, plural vivisections)

The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.

Translations

The action of invasive treatment of a living organism for scientific investigation

Armenian: կենդանահատում (kendanahatum)
Catalan: vivisecció f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 活體解剖, 活体解剖 (huótǐ jiěpōu)
Dutch: vivisectie (nl) f
Esperanto: vivisekcio
Finnish: vivisektio (fi)
French: vivisection (fr) f
German: Vivisektion (de) f
Greek: ζωοτομία (el) f (zootomía)

Hungarian: elevenboncolás
Ido: vivdisseko
Japanese: 生体解剖 (せいたいかいぼう, seitaikaibō)
Korean: 생체 해부 (saengche haebu) (生體解剖)
Polish: wiwisekcja f
Portuguese: vivissecção f, vivisseção f
Russian: вивисе́кция (ru) f (vivisékcija)
Spanish: vivisección f
Swedish: vivisektion (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

vivisection f (plural vivisections)

vivisection

Further reading

“vivisection” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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