Word Meanings - CREMASTERIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.

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• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ARTERY
  One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries. Note: In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain
• CREMASTER
  A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.
• BARTERY
  Barter. Camden.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach