What's the difference between surgery and vivisection?
Surgery
Definition:
(n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
(n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(2) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(3) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(4) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(5) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(6) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
(7) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(8) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(9) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(10) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(11) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
(12) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
(13) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(14) In hypertensive patients, intravenous nicardipine in doses of 1 to 2 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 produced normotensive state during surgery accompanied by significant diuresis.
(15) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
(16) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(17) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(18) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(19) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(20) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
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.