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What does antivivisection mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word antivivisection? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. opposed to vivisection
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Adams himself had little more closure: Saunders, Otley soon went bust, and after a desultory series of projects he became the editor for an antivivisection society.
It would seem impossible to write a book about animals' souls and yet never mention today's vibrant animal rights movement, but here we have it: no mentions of vegetarianism, antivivisection activism, humane farming.
Not that government capitulation to public pressure generated by antivivisection campaigns is anything particularly new.
On the seacoast they also have learned to catch turtles and subdivide them, regardless of antivivisection laws.
The alleged incidents happened when the antivivisection group Speak, had been protesting against animal testing outside a theatre in Oxford.
An antivivisection movement in the late 19th century broadened its scope to include prevention of all cruelty to animals and later gave rise to the animal rights movement.

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