What's the difference between dissection and vivisection?
Dissection
Definition:
(n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
(n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
(n.) Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(3) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
(4) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(5) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(6) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(7) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
(8) Fewer one-cell embryos co-cultured with dissected ampullae for less than 24 h developed to blastocysts than those co-cultured for more than 28 h (P < 0.001).
(9) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
(10) When the supraomohyoid neck dissection specimen showed no involvement, the overall incidence of treatment failure in the neck at 2-year follow-up was 5 percent.
(11) The ventral root dissection technique was used to obtain contractile and electromyogram (e.m.g.)
(12) To dissect the epitope specificity of the group-specific neutralizing antibodies, CD4 attachment site-specific antibodies (CD4-site Abs) were isolated from total anti-gp120 Abs by using a CD4-blocked gp120SF2-Sepharose column.
(13) The complete thyroid cartilage is dissected out, and then a horizontal cut is made through the cricoid cartilage.
(14) These findings demonstrate that heteroantisera can provide an additional important tool for dissecting the heterogeneity of T-cell leukemias and for relating them to more differentiated normal T cells.
(15) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
(16) A new method of anatomic dissection and image reconstruction using computer techniques for better understanding of eustachian tube (ET) functioning is presented.
(17) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
(18) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
(19) We studied 36 patients (21 women and 15 men) with spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid arteries.
(20) Between March 1986 and September 1988, 38 patients underwent extended aortic resection (aortic valve, ascending aorta, and arch) for acute type-A aortic dissection with aortic valve insufficiency; deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest were used.
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.