anatomizer

English

Etymology

From anatomize +‎ -er.

Noun

anatomizer (plural anatomizers)

1. One who carries out dissection.

   Synonym: dissector

   • 1978, Alan Hager, Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric:

     The physician is a direct anatomizer of the human body.

References

• “anatomizer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.