excisor

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excisor

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

noun 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.

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noun one who excises

Françaisexciseur, exciseuse

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@misc{excisor_2026,
  title = {excisor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/excisor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}