sentisection

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English

Etymology

From Latin sentire (to feel) + English section.

Noun

sentisection (usually uncountable, plural sentisections)

  1. (archaic) painful vivisection, without the use of anesthetic
    • 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics:
      The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection

References

sentisection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.