osteotomist

English

Etymology

osteotomy +‎ -ist

Noun

osteotomist (plural osteotomists)

  1. One skilled in osteotomy
    • 1884, Canadian Practitioner, volume 9, page 75:
      The osteotomists, affirming that fracture cannot be performed at this low level, say that osteoclasy must be given up.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for osteotomist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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