vivisection
Surgery on animals
Vivisection is surgery performed on living animals for experimental purposes—dissecting while alive.
The term carries strong negative connotations and is used primarily by opponents of animal testing: anti-vivisection activists.
Extended to any ruthlessly probing analysis: a vivisection of the president's economic policies.
Moral claims for fauna
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- consentVoluntary agreement given
welfare · humane treatment · sentience · bioethics · activism · protest · legislation · regulation
Facility for scientific investigation
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- pharmacologyStudy of drug actions
- toxicologyScience of poisons
- physiologyScience of bodily functions
biomedicine · neuroscience · drug testing · animal model · clinical trials · LD50 · safety testing · vaccine development
Precise surgical knife
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- surgicalRelating to operations
- tissueDisposable soft paper
- specimenIndividual for examination
anesthesia · restraint · operating table · cannula · catheter · electrode · implantation · injection
Research experiment animal
- guinea pigSmall rodent, pet or test subject
- mouseSmall gnawing mammal
- rabbitLong-eared lagomorph
- primateHigher mammal order member
beagle · frog · macaque · rhesus monkey · chimpanzee · dog · cat · pig
In an artificial environment
- cell cultureLaboratory technique for growing tissue
- computer simulationDigital imitation of processes
- organoidLab-grown tissue structure
- replacementWhat takes another's place
animal rights
Moral claims for fauna
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- moralityRight and wrong principles
consent · welfare · humane treatment · sentience · bioethics · activism · protest · legislation · regulation · oversight
laboratory
Facility for scientific investigation
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- pharmacologyStudy of drug actions
- toxicologyScience of poisons
physiology · biomedicine · neuroscience · drug testing · animal model · clinical trials · LD50 · safety testing · vaccine development · medical research
scalpel
Precise surgical knife
specimen · anesthesia · restraint · operating table · cannula · catheter · electrode · implantation · injection · organ
lab rat
Research experiment animal
- guinea pigSmall rodent, pet or test subject
- mouseSmall gnawing mammal
- rabbitLong-eared lagomorph
primate · beagle · frog · macaque · rhesus monkey · chimpanzee · dog · cat · pig · rodent
in vitro
In an artificial environment
- cell cultureLaboratory technique for growing tissue
- computer simulationDigital imitation of processes
- organoidLab-grown tissue structure
replacement · reduction · refinement · microdosing · synthetic
- laboratorybeaker, test tube, flask, microscope, pipette
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- Mad Scientistmad scientist, secret lab, lab coat, laboratory, evil genius
- Science Historyscientific revolution, natural philosophy, scientific method, scientific journals, Royal Society
- animal testinglab mice, animal testing, lab rats, experimentation, medical experimentation
- controversial practicesabortion, capital punishment, death penalty, euthanasia, torture
vivisectionautopsy
Medical examination after death
necropsy · postmortem examination · postmortem · post-mortem · dissection
vivisectionsuturing
Closing wounds with thread
closure · joining · sewing · wound repair · wound closure
vivisectionantivivisection
Opposition to animal surgery research