vivisection

Among the horrors he described were vivisections performed without anesthesia on those who had been deliberately administered germs; doctors wanted to see firsthand how the ensuing diseases infected the body.

Unit 731 is also believed to have performed vivisections and frozen prisoners to death in tests of endurance.

The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.

His criticism workshops, a curricula staple for budding critics and dramaturgs, were an experience in literary vivisection, as he homed in on every cliché and woolly idea in that week’s student essay.

But “Blonde” subjects Monroe to its own grisly vivisection.