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What is a multifidus?

What is a multifidus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) 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.
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Cape mastic is the produce of Euryops multifidus, the resin bush, or hairpuis bosch of the Boers a plant of the family Compositae.
More intimately associated with the paravertebral gutter are the short and long rotatores, overlaid by multifidus, semispinalis cervicis and semispinalis thoracis.
Differences in electromyographic activity in the multifidus muscle and the iliocostalis lumborum between healty subjects and patients with sub-acute and chronic low back pain.
This likelihood is enhanced when the elasticity of the belt, by mimicking the action of muscles such as the transverse abdominis and multifidus, is pulling the joint into nutation.
The shoulder fixators and stabilizers also come into play as well as the obliques, multifidus and glutes.
So are the less familiar intertransversi, interspinalis and multifidus muscles, which link to the larger abdominal group but which rarely figure in magazine articles about washboard abs.

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