Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In marsupials a muscle which compresses the mammary gland and forces the milk down the gullet of the young while in the pouch.
- noun The muscle of the spermatic cord; the suspensory muscle of the testicle, consisting of a series of fibers derived from the internal oblique muscle of the abdomen, and let down in loops upon the cord.
- noun In entomology, a name given by Kirby to little hook-like processes on the posterior extremity of many lepidopterous pupæ, by which they suspend themselves during pupation; hence, the tip of the abdomen of the pupa of any insect which undergoes complete metamorphosis, serving for the attachment of the pupa.
- noun A hook for hanging a pot or other vossel over a fire.
- Suspensory; pertaining to the cremaster: as, the cremaster muscle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.
- noun (Zoöl.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.
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- noun anatomy A thin
muscle attached to thetesticles . - noun zoology In the
pupae of certain species ofbutterfly , a hook-shaped protuberance from the rear of thechrysalis casing, by which thecaterpillar fixes itself to the pad of silk it has cemented to the underside of a perch.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The name cremaster therefore must not cancel the fact that the fibres so named are parts of the muscles, E F.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The arched inferior border of the transverse muscle, F, Plate 30, expresses by its abrupt termination that some part is wanting to it; and this appearance, together with the fact that the fibres of this part of the muscle blend with those of the internal oblique and cremaster, and cannot be separated except by severing the connexion, at once suggests the idea that the cremaster is a derivation from both these muscles.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The cremaster is a characteristic structure in the pupa of a moth or butterfly.
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No mention of the cremaster reflex, though the thighs are obviously getting a massage as well.
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The cremaster, by the way, is a muscle that controls the ascent/descent of the testicles.
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Again, in the female devoid of a cremaster, the muscles, E F, present of their full quantities, having sustained no diminution of their bulk by the formation of a cremaster.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The muscular parietes of the male inguinal region, from which the loose cremaster muscle has been derived, have by this circumstance become weakened, and hence the more frequent occurrence of external inguinal hernia in the male.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The oblique and serial arrangement of the muscular fibres of the internal oblique, F, Pl. 29, is seen to be continued upon the spermatic cord by the fibres of the cremaster, E e.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Again, the cremaster muscle is stated by some to cover this hernia; by others, to be rarely met with, as forming one of its coverings; and by others, never.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Whilst the fleshy fibres of the latter terminate on a level with C, the iliac spine, those of the internal oblique are continued down as far as the external abdominal ring, E D h, and even protrude through this place in the form of a cremaster.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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