sentisection
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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.