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sentisection

sentisection noun: painful vivisection, without the use of anesthetic.

Noun

sentisection (usually uncountable, plural sentisections)

  1. (archaic, usually) painful vivisection, without the use of anesthetic
    • The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics

Forms of sentisection

pluralsentisections

Origin of sentisection

From Latin sentire (“to feel”) + English section.

Questions about sentisection

What does sentisection mean?
Sentisection means painful vivisection, without the use of anesthetic.
What part of speech is sentisection?
Sentisection is a noun.
What is the plural of sentisection?
The plural of sentisection is sentisections.

Words near sentisection in the dictionary

  1. sentiocentric
  2. sentiocentrism
  3. sentiocentrist
  4. sentiocentrists
  5. sention
  6. sentisection
  7. sentisections
  8. sentoid
  9. sentoids
  10. sentoku
  11. senton

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