Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, pertaining to the cremaster: as. a cremasteric artery; cremasteric fibers.

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  • adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the cremaster.

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  • adjective Appertaining or relating to cremasters.

Etymologies

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cremaster +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • In the adult, where the testicle has descended to the scrotum, the cremaster exists, and is serially continuous with the muscles, E F, covering the space L h; the meaning of which is, that the cremasteric parts of the muscles, E F, cover this space.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • But when an external inguinal hernia occurs in the female body, the bowel during its descent carries before it a cremasteric covering at the expense of the muscles E F, just in the same way as the testicle does in the foetus.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • No foot clonus, no Babinski; abdominal reflexes present, cremasteric not elicited; catalepsy not always present.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • The funnel-shaped sheath of the spermatic vessels covering the external hernia; upon it are seen the cremasteric fibres.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The hernia, which follows the course of the spermatic vessels, must therefore necessarily become invested by cremasteric fibres.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Again, if the hernia enter the inguinal wall close to the epigastric artery, it will find its way into the inguinal canal, become invested by the structures forming this part, and here it may suffer active constriction from the muscular fibres of the transverse and internal oblique or their cremasteric parts.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • On the ninth day there was some return of sensation in the lower extremities, and a cremasteric reflex was to be obtained.

    Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

  • The peculiar looping arrangement exhibited by the cremasteric fibres indicates the fact that the testicle, during its descent from the loins to the scrotum, carried with it a muscular covering, at the expense of the internal oblique muscle.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The cremasteric fibres, within the external ring, surrounding the cord; e, the cremasteric fibres looping over the cord outside the ring.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • These loops are united together by areolar tissue, and form a thin covering over the cord and testis, the cremasteric fascia.

    IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen 1918

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