lithotomist
(lɪˈθɒtəmɪst)
[f. lithotomy + -ist. Cf. F. lithotomiste.]
1. One who practises lithotomy.
| 1663 Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 79, I inquired of him, whether he had met with a remedy that could dissolve the stone, offering him much more for a cure of that kind, then he would require as a lithotomist. 1731 Gentl. Mag. I. 78 Dr. Bamber, lithotomist to that [viz. St. Bartholomew's] hospital. a 1754 R. Mead Wks. (1775) 405 Ammonius, a Greek physician, who..was surnamed λιθοτόµος, the Lithotomist. 1883 Holmes & Hulke Syst. Surg. (ed. 3) III. 281 Some of the most successful lithotomists have..advocated sufficient incision as less dangerous than violent extraction. |
2. One who cuts inscriptions on stone. rare.
| 1713 Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 291 Lithotomists careless in dividing Syllables. |