Usually means: Supports, stabilizes the vertebral column.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (multifidus)

noun:  (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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