Word Meanings - VIVISECTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to vivisection.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• VIVISECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to vivisection.
• VIVISECTIONIST
  One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
• VIVISECTION
  The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
• ANTIVIVISECTIONIST
  One opposed to vivisection
• ANTIVIVISECTION
  Opposition to vivisection.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach