vivisectionist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who practices, advocates, or defends vivisection

   The physiologist was denounced as a vivisectionist by opponents of animal experimentation.

Formed from vivisection + the agent suffix -ist. Vivisection was coined from Latin vivus, "alive," on the pattern of dissection, whose second element comes from Latin secare, "to cut"; the compound therefore denotes cutting or operating on a living organism.

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