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cremaster muscle

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A thin layer of skeletal muscle that envelops the spermatic cord and testis of most male mammals in a series of loops; it is a continuation of the obliquus internus, arising from the inguinal ligament and inserting into the crest of the pubis and into the sheath of the rectus abdominis; it is innervated by the genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve and functions to draw the testis up toward the superficial inguinal ring in response to cold or to stimulation of the nerve;. [ MP:0011833 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremaster_muscle ]

Synonyms: musculus cremaster <male>, muscle of Riolan (cremaster), cremaster

Term info

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Subsets

pheno_slim

UBPROP 0000007

cremasteric

curator note

in females it is represented by only a few muscle loops that envelop the round ligament of the uterus. This class represents the male structure

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Gray1143.png

has related synonym

cremasteric muscle, muscle of Riolan, cremaster muscle, musculus cremaster

id

UBERON:0008488

prefLabel

cremaster muscle, Cremasteric muscle