Definition of Antivivisection

1. n. Opposition to vivisection.

Definition of Antivivisection

1. Adjective. opposed to vivisection ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antivivisection

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Antivivisection

1. Opposition to the use of living animals for experimentation. See: vivisection. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antivivisection

antivideos
antiviolence
antiviolent
antiviral
antiviral agent
antiviral agents
antiviral drug
antiviral immunity
antiviral protein
antivirally
antivirals
antivirus
antiviruses
antivitamin
antivitamins
antivivisection (current term)
antivivisectionism
antivivisectionist
antivivisectionists
antivortex
antivortices
antiwar
antiwarfare
antiwarrior
antiwarriors
antiwart
antiwaste
antiwater
antiweapon
antiwear

Literary usage of Antivivisection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Animal Experimentation and Medical Progress by William Williams Keen (1914)
"Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins, President of the American antivivisection Society, ... Violent Passions aroused by antivivisection Agitation The most violent and ..."

2. Vivisection: Hearing Before the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia by United States, Committee on the District of Columbia, Senate, Congress (1900)
"The Illinois antivivisection Society prints the following statement in its various publications: "The restrictive act, in England, after a trial of ..."

3. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1900)
"What we refer to is the antivivisection spasm. ... antivivisection is an appanage of " refined " persons not of the intelligent classes. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"To the present reviewer that aspect of the antivivisection agitation that is by far the most interesting is the psychology of it. ..."

5. Vaccination and Its Relation to Animal Experimentation by Jay Frank Schamberg (1911)
"Some Characteristics of antivivisection Literature, by Dr. Walter B. Cannon, ... The Charge of "Human Vivisection" as Presented in antivivisection ..."

6. The Heart of the Anti-vivisectionist by Charles Sidney Bluemel (1922)
"antivivisection Legislation: Its History, Aims and Menace. ... The Charge of "Human Vivisection" as Presented in antivivisection Literature. ..."

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