What's the difference between cutting and vivisection?

Cutting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut
  • (n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
  • (n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
  • (a.) Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
  • (a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
  • (a.) Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
  • (5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
  • (8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
  • (10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
  • (14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
  • (17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
  • (19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.

Vivisection


Definition:

  • (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The proposals as they stand would also see hens' eggs, which are used to produce vaccines, dealt with under vivisection regulations, a move that would drive up costs and increase bureaucracy, the scientists said.
  • (2) As Howard Hawks's Monkey Business showed, you could even set a screwball comedy in a vivisection lab.
  • (3) Earlier this year, the university, which has long since dropped its imperial title, made the surprising decision to acknowledge the darkest chapter in its history with the inclusion of vivisection exhibits at its new museum .
  • (4) It is a bizarre, fascinating, crazily over-the-top piece of self-portraiture which verges on self-vivisection, culminating in Kim's cracked performance of "Arirang", a Korean folk-song replete with anguish.
  • (5) Cruelty in the form of painful scientific experiments, including dissection of living, conscious animals, vivisection, was proscribed by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876.
  • (6) Tryptamide produces a smaller hypotension and stimulates the respiratory amplitude to a lesser extent than phenylbutazone in a vivisectional experiment.
  • (7) The revolutionary capability of nondestructive, operator interactive, mathematical vivisection provided by synchronous cylindrical scanning tomography to obtain similar information non-invasively and painlessly will provide these data to the internist for individual patients.
  • (8) The article on marmosets used in experiments at King's College London (" The ethics of animal tests: inside the lab where marmosets are given Parkinson's ", News) painted a remarkably positive picture of life in the laboratory ahead of the series of debates sponsored by a pro-vivisection lobby group.
  • (9) These capabilities of "noninvasive numerical biopsy" and "vivisection" have heretofore been the preserve of pathologists at autopsy or surgeons at the operating table.
  • (10) Initiatives registered so far call for action on vivisection, ecocide (the mass destruction of ecosystems) and media pluralism.
  • (11) He compares vivisection to terrorism and, citing the doctrine of ahisma (nonviolence), advocates the abolition of vivisection.
  • (12) For example: "At the front door, I saw my friend Liz vivisecting a pig (two of hearts, two of diamonds, three of hearts) …" Foer's method, which allows him to associate multiple items with each mental location, led him to set a record at the 2006 US Memory Championships by memorising an entire pack of 52 cards in only 1min 40sec.
  • (13) His aim was to penetrate the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which he says was "then engaged in incendiary device and explosive device campaigns against targets in the vivisection, meat and fur trades".
  • (14) A film, according to this logic, exists only in the eye or mind of the beholder; Haneke, preserving his own moral superiority, takes no responsibility if someone sees Funny Games as a snuff movie or The Piano Teacher as pornography, and he remains blameless if we view Amour as a chilly experiment that vivisects its elderly actors.
  • (15) The practice of vivisection is both defended as necessary to medical advancement and attacked as being symptomatic of a breakdown in society.
  • (16) Like the leaders of Unit 731, the doctors who conducted live vivisection re-entered postwar society as respectable members of the medical community.
  • (17) Of the 30 Kyushu University doctors and military staff who stood trial in 1948, 23 were convicted of vivisection and the wrongful removal of body parts.
  • (18) Criticising it is like vivisecting a Labrador puppy.
  • (19) As far back as 2002, a House of Lords committee called for section 24 to be repealed, and last year, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (Navs) visited Downing Street to call on David Cameron to act, supported by a number of celebrities.
  • (20) Michelle Thew, at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, said: "The UK is one of the largest users of animals in experiments but legislation makes it one of the most secretive in Europe.

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