vivisector

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who performs vivisection or experiments involving operations on living animals

   The novel portrays Moreau as a ruthless vivisector who treats living animals as experimental material.

Formed from vivisect + the agent suffix -or. Vivisect was itself back-formed in the nineteenth century from vivisection, whose elements ultimately mean "living" and "cutting."

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