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Bursa  n.  (pl. bursae)  (Anat.) Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.





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"Bursa" Quotes from Famous Books



... being no tendons to act upon it, except the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris attached to the pisiform, and there are several risks it would run in the inflammation of all the carpal joints, and the almost certain spread of this inflammation to the bursa underneath the flexor tendons, beyond the annular ligament, and up the ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell


Words linked to "Bursa" :   sac, bursal, city, Capsella bursa-pastoris, metropolis, urban center, Brusa, bursa omentalis


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