vivisection

English

Etymology

From Latin vīvus (“alive”) +‎ sectiō (“cutting”). Compare French vivisection. See also vivid and section.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɪ.vɪˈsɛk.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
• Hyphenation: vi‧vi‧sec‧tion

Noun

vivisection (countable and uncountable, plural vivisections)

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

Translations

act of invasive treatment of a living organism

• Armenian: կենդանահատում (kendanahatum)
• Azerbaijani: diriyarma
• Catalan: vivisecció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 活體解剖／活体解剖 (huótǐ jiěpōu)

• Cornish: bewdreghyans m
• Danish: vivisektion c
• Dutch: vivisectie (nl) f
• Esperanto: vivisekcio
• Finnish: vivisektio (fi)
• French: vivisection (fr) f
• German: Vivisektion (de) f
• Greek: ζωοτομία (el) f (zootomía)
• Hungarian: elevenboncolás, élveboncolás (hu)
• Ido: vivdisseko
• Japanese: 生体解剖 (せいたいかいぼう, seitaikaibō)
• Korean: 생체 해부(生體解剖) (saengche haebu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: viviseksjon m

  Nynorsk: viviseksjon m

• Polish: wiwisekcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: vivissecção f, vivisseção f
• Russian: вивисе́кция (ru) f (vivisékcija), живосече́ние (ru) n (živosečénije)
• Spanish: vivisección f
• Swedish: vivisektion (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.vi.sɛk.sjɔ̃/

Noun

vivisection f (plural vivisections)

1. vivisection

Further reading

• “vivisection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.