Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The erector spinæ muscle; the sacrolumbalis and longissimus dorsi taken together.
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This type of training engages and increases the activation of the core muscles consisting of pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis, multifidus, internal and external obliques, rectus abdominis, erector spinae (sacrospinalis) especially the longissimus thoracis, and the diaphragm.
David Buer: Effects Of Training On Unstable Surfaces For Sports Performance 2009
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This type of training engages and increases the activation of the core muscles consisting of pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis, multifidus, internal and external obliques, rectus abdominis, erector spinae (sacrospinalis) especially the longissimus thoracis, and the diaphragm.
David Buer: Effects Of Training On Unstable Surfaces For Sports Performance 2009
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This type of training engages and increases the activation of the core muscles consisting of pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis, multifidus, internal and external obliques, rectus abdominis, erector spinae (sacrospinalis) especially the longissimus thoracis, and the diaphragm.
David Buer: Effects Of Training On Unstable Surfaces For Sports Performance 2009
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The warm, soft, creamy skin is nothing to him but epidermis, _stratum mucosum Malpighii_; the white, sculptured neck only the _regio nuchæ_, and then comes the _regio scapularis_, the _deltoidea_, and then the _sacrospinalis_.
Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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