circumciser

Noun

circumciser (plural circumcisers)

1. A person who performs circumcision.
   • The psychoanalyst has to come along, at last, to assert again the tried wisdom of the older, forward-looking teachings of the masked medicine dancers and the witch-doctor-circumcisers; whereupon we find, as in the dream of the serpent bite, that the ageless initiation symbolism is produced...1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12
   • He said President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative and the World Health Organization were considering paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries, but must work out what training and equipment they would require circumcisers to have.2007 February 23, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Circumcision’s Anti-AIDS Effect Found Greater Than First Thought”, in New York Times

   Synonyms:

   posthectomist, mohel