callisection

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin callere (“to be insensible”) + English section.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

callisection (countable and uncountable, plural callisections)

  1. (dated) painless vivisection
    • 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]

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

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