sentisection
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin sentire (“to feel”) + English section.
Noun edit
sentisection (usually uncountable, plural sentisections)
- (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
Related terms edit
References edit
“sentisection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.