Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Painless vivisection; the dissection of living animals which have been anesthetized.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dated painless vivisection

Etymologies

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Latin callere to be insensible + English section.

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