ovariotomist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ovariotomy + -ist.
Noun
[edit]ovariotomist (plural ovariotomists)
- (surgery, now historical) Someone who performs a ovariotomy. [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 351:
- Liston lashed the ovariotomists as ‘belly rippers’, and critics suggested it was done only to allow surgeons to practise pelvic surgery.