ovariotomist

ovariotomist

English

Etymology

From ovariotomy +‎ -ist.

Noun

ovariotomist (plural ovariotomists)

1. (surgery, now historical) Someone who performs a ovariotomy. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 351:

     Liston lashed the ovariotomists as ‘belly rippers’, and critics suggested it was done only to allow surgeons to practise pelvic surgery.