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  • noun Plural form of cremaster.

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Examples

  • Fear, Dr. Ohl says, is one of the reasons why muscles along the spermatic cord, called cremasters, pull the testes into the groin region.

    About.com Gay Life 2010

  • There are muscles along the spermatic cord called cremasters, which, when stimulated (by cold and ejaculation, but mainly as a response to fear), contract and pull your testes up into the inguinal (groin) region and out of harm's way until the perceived threat is gone.

    Esquire.com Article Feed 2010

  • Swinge her skin-coat as if thou wert beating on stock-fish; and let the repercussion of thy clapper from her resounding metal make a noise as if a double peal of chiming-bells were hung at the cremasters of thy ballocks.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Swinge her skin-coat as if thou wert beating on stock-fish; and let the repercussion of thy clapper from her resounding metal make a noise as if a double peal of chiming-bells were hung at the cremasters of thy ballocks.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Swinge her skin-coat as if thou wert beating on stock-fish; and let the repercussion of thy clapper from her resounding metal make a noise as if a double peal of chiming-bells were hung at the cremasters of thy ballocks.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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