different between cremasteric vs cremaster

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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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (kremast?r, “suspender”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?i??mast?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?i?mæst??/

Noun

cremaster (plural cremasters)

1. (anatomy) A thin muscle attached to the testicles.
2. (zoology) In the pupae of certain species of butterfly, a hook-shaped protuberance from the rear of the chrysalis casing, by which the caterpillar fixes itself to the pad of silk it has cemented to the underside of a perch.

Synonyms

• musculus cremaster

Derived terms

• cremasterial
• cremasteric

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