[f. LITHOTOMY + -IST. Cf. F. lithotomiste.]
1. One who practises lithotomy.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. ii. 79. I inquired of him, whether he had met with a remedy that could dissolve the stone, offering him much more for a cure of that kind, then he would require as a lithotomist.
1731. Gentl. Mag., I. 78. Dr. Bamber, lithotomist to that [viz. St. Bartholomew’s] hospital.
a. 1754. R. Mead, Wks. (1775), 405. Ammonius, a Greek physician, who … was surnamed Λιθοτόμος, the Lithotomist.
1883. T. Holmes & Hulke, Syst. Surg. (ed. 3), III. 281. Some of the most successful lithotomists have … advocated sufficient incision as less dangerous than violent extraction.
2. One who cuts inscriptions on stone. rare.
1713. Phil. Tran., XXVIII. 291. Lithotomists careless in dividing Syllables.
