That's being dissected while alive. Not quite the same thing, but it is a good word.
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Obscure word from Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolf
04/12/2012 07:07:32 PM
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Vivisection?
05/12/2012 03:30:33 PM
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There's also biopsy
05/12/2012 10:28:54 PM
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I can't believe either of those words qualify as "obscure", though.
05/12/2012 11:20:20 PM
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Considering "average" vocabulary...
05/12/2012 11:25:13 PM
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Ultrasound is what you call something that sounds super cool, right?
06/12/2012 12:51:40 AM
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Somehow I doubt many people with average vocabularies make it past chapter one though
10/12/2012 01:16:27 PM
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I was looking through lists of obscure Wolfe words online, and I couldn't find anything.
06/12/2012 12:18:14 AM
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If it's not vivisection maybe you can find the word off the Wolfewiki?
10/12/2012 01:24:11 PM
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