sentisection

English

Etymology

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

Related terms

• callisection

References

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