excisor

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English

Noun

excisor (plural excisors)

  1. One who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
    • 2010, Population Reference Bureau, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends, archived from the original on 8 September 2017:
      Typically, traditional excisors have carried out the procedure, but recently a discouraging trend has emerged in some countries where medical professionals are increasingly performing the procedure.