When Was the Word Vivisection First Used?

It is possible that human vivisection was practised by some Greek anatomists in Alexandria in the 3rd century BC.

Who invented the vivisection?

Galen, a physician in 2nd-century Rome, dissected pigs and goats, and is known as the "Father of Vivisection." Avenzoar, an Arabic physician in 12th-century Moorish Spain who also practiced dissection, introduced animal testing as an experimental method of testing surgical procedures before applying them to human ...

What does vivisection mean?

1 : the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation broadly : animal experimentation especially if considered to cause distress to the subject. 2 : minute or pitiless examination or criticism.