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cremaster muscle

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cremaster muscle
a slip of muscle detached from the internal oblique muscle and passing through the inguinal canal; attached to the vaginal tunics of the spermatic cord the muscles are effective in drawing up the testicles when injury threatens. See Table 13.


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The artist has often explained his master scheme, for example on German television recently: The cremaster muscle controls the position of the testicles, which varies with temperature.
[45] However, when Rubin et al[44] attempted to replicate Hogan and colleagues'[41] research by also applying pulsed ultrasound to the rat cremaster muscle using 2 (0.
Barney makes no secret that the series' raw subject matter is the ascending and descending of the testicles, a process controlled by the cremaster muscle.
 
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