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excisor

excisor noun: one who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.

Noun

excisor (plural excisors)

  1. One who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
    • 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.2010, Population Reference Bureau, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2017

Forms of excisor

pluralexcisors

Origin of excisor

Borrowed from Latin excīsor. By surface analysis, excise + -or.

Questions about excisor

What does excisor mean?
Excisor means one who excises, especially one who performs female genital cutting.
What part of speech is excisor?
Excisor is a noun.
What is the plural of excisor?
The plural of excisor is excisors.

Words near excisor in the dictionary

  1. excisional
  2. excisionase
  3. excisionases
  4. excisions
  5. excisive
  6. excisor
  7. excisors
  8. excisosome
  9. excisosomes
  10. excist
  11. excitabilities

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