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

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


Answer: C

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