This muscle extends and rotates the vertebral column toward the opposite side of the body. Its inferior attachments are on the sacrum and transverse processes of each vertebra and its superior attachments are the spinous processes of more superior vertebrae.

A. Intertransversarii
B. Rotators
C. Interspinales
D. Multifidus
E. Quadratus lumborum


Answer: D

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