different between ovariotomy vs ovariotomist

English

From ovary +? -o- +? -tomy.

ovariotomy (countable and uncountable, plural ovariotomies)

From ovariotomy +? -ist.

ovariotomist (plural ovariotomists)

(surgery, now historical) Someone who performs a ovariotomy. [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 351:
  Liston lashed the ovariotomists as ‘belly rippers’, and critics suggested it was done only to allow surgeons to practise pelvic surgery.

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