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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A thin muscle consisting of a number of fleshy and tendinous fasciculi that fill up the groove on either side of the spinous processes of the vertebrae, from the sacrum to the axis.

Etymology

From Latin multifidus. Doublet of multifid and multifidous.

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