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[[File:Frog vivisection.jpg|thumb|Before vivisection, [[chloroform]] was given to this sand [[frog]] so that it would not feel pain.]]
[[File:Activist against vivisection.JPG|thumb|Activist against vivisection]]
[[File:Animal lab.JPG|thumb|Animal lab]]
'''Vivisection''' (from [[Latin]] ''vivus'' ("alive") + ''sectio'' ("cutting")) is a doing a [[surgery]] as an experiment on a living [[organism]], usually animals. It is sometimes used to mean [[animal testing]] itself (see [[Animal testing#Definitions|animal testing]]).<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9382118?query=Vivisection&ct= "Vivisection"], ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', 2009: "Vivisection: operation on a living animal for experimental rather than healing purposes; more broadly, all experimentation on live animals."</ref><ref name=Tansey>Tansey, E.M. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1139874/pdf/medhist00063-0114.pdf Review of ''Vivisection in Historical Perspective by Nicholaas A. Rupke], book reviews, National Center for Biotechnology Information, p. 226.</ref><ref>Croce, Pietro. ''Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health''. Zed Books, 1999, and [http://www.buav.org/aboutus "About Us"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054948/http://www.buav.org/aboutus |date=2013-09-21 }}, British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.</ref> The word is often used by people or organizations who dislike animal experimentation<ref>Yarri, Donna. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DkNJXIWbhtEC&dq=vivisection+pejorative+not+used&pg=PA163 ''The Ethics of Animal Experimentation: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Christian Proposal], Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 163.</ref>

== References ==
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== More reading ==
* Yarri, Donna. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation, Oxford University Press U.S., 2005

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