The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preparator \Pre*par"a*tor\, n. [L. praeparator.]
One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection,
specimens for preservation in collections, etc.
--Agassiz.
Wiktionary
n. A person who prepares specimens or exhibits
Usage examples of "preparator".
As collections manager and exhibits preparator, she had to keep up with this kind of information in order to set up exhibits and locate new storage for new acquisitions and temporary loans.
Once again, she had the lab to herself: her office mate, the preparator, had apparently taken a sudden ex.
Rax sent the two preparators back by plane and he himself traveled with the artifact.
Shane followed the crate and the preparators onto the freight elevator.
Assistant food preparators rarely made use of High Thranx, which was not a dialect but a second language whose use was largely reserved for the learned.
Food preparators did not have access to stunners or projectile devices.
Meanwhile, Jonesy and all his preparators were in Garfield Weston Hall, salvaging everything they could from the shattered shales.
Jason manages a staff of many volunteer and part-time preparators who support the work of the Bahariya Dinosaur Project and other projects in Montana, South America, and Pennsylvania.
Poole, twenty-nine at the time, is also one of the best young bone preparators in America, a master in the delicate art of freeing dinosaurs and other fossils from the rock in which they are locked.
His friendly relations with Pierre Curie dated from the time when they were both preparators at the Sorbonne.
Shortly after lunch, a junior preparator in the vertebrate paleontology department collapsed at her laboratory table.