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Webster 1913 Edition

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(kr?-m?s′t?r)

Noun.

[NL., from Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], fr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] to hang.]

(Anat.)

A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.

(Zool.)

The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.

See also: cremáster

cremaster ‎(plural cremasters)

(anatomy) A thin muscle attached to the testicles.
(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.

thin muscle attached to the testicles