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chloroformist

noun

Etymology

From chloroform + -ist.

  1. borrowed from chloroforme
  2. suffixed as chloroformist — “chloroform + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who uses chloroform as an anaesthetic.

    • But his whole account of the correspondence between the chloroformist, by profession, and our colleague is erroneous.
    • In the Lancet cases the methods of giving the anaesthetic were almost uniformly dangerous even in the hands of the most expert and experienced chloroformist.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA