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One who is opposed to the cutting of or operating on a living animal for physiological or pathological investigation.

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Usage examples (15)
  • Strictly speaking, I am not an antivivisectionist.
  • No antivivisectionist would accept the suggestion of a single experiment.
  • How could Dr. Keen have dreamed for a moment that any antivivisectionist would have signed such a recantation?
  • He cannot be regarded as an antivivisectionist, for he repeatedly states that to painless experiments upon animals no objection exists.
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