cremasteric

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English

Etymology

cremaster +‎ -ic

Adjective

cremasteric (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Of or relating to cremasters.
    • 1918, Carroll Woolsey Allen, Local and Regional Anesthesia, W. B. Saunders Company; second edition, Chapter XVIII, page #367:
      The aponeurosis of the external oblique is now divided and its edges retracted; this exposes the cord and hernia sac lying on top, the whole surrounded by the cremasteric fascia through which run bundles of the cremasteric muscle.

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