amputatorn.
One who amputates. lit. and fig.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment > one who
abridger1555
diminisher1601
retrencher1699
amputator1810
docker1810
curtailer1813
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > others
bone-setter?1518
circumciser1535
bronchotomist1670
acupuncturist1839
tenotomist1842
orthopaedist1853
plastic surgeon1863
resectionist1863
cephalotomist1869
amputator1882
brain surgeon1888
tracheotomist1891
neurosurgeon1925
face-lifter1928
plastician1928
psychosurgeon1945
orthopod1960
transplanter1970
1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1866) i. vi. 26, I might..have referred our hurrying enlighteners and revolutionary amputators to the gentleness of nature.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 July 2 A successful amputator of dogs' tails.
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