circumciser

plural circumcisers

1. A person who performs circumcision.

   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

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   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 spontaneously by the patient himself at the moment of the release.

   1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12

   Synonyms: posthectomist, mohel