Usually means: Major muscle along the spine.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (longissimus)

noun:  (anatomy) The muscle lateral to the semispinalis; the longest subdivision of the sacrospinalis that extends forward into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrae.

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