bursitis - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • elbow: Information: A 35-year-old woman has had bursitis of the elbow for two or three years now.

Converse of object

  • call: When the condition called bursitis occurs, the slippery bursa sac becomes swollen and inflamed.

Adjective modifier

  • subacromial: DESIGN: A total of 40 patients with sonographic confirmation of subacromial bursitis were recruited into this study.
  • trochanteric: Lateral pain, worse on lying on that side, with tenderness over the greater trochanter suggests secondary trochanteric bursitis.

Noun used with modifier

  • olecranon: In the knee, this is ' housemaid's knee ' - in the elbow ' olecranon bursitis ' .

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