A sac or saclike bodily cavity, especially one containing a viscous lubricating fluid and located between a tendon and a bone or at points of friction between moving structures.
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A city of northwest Turkey west of Ankara. It dates from the third century bc and was a capital of the Ottoman Turks in the 1300s.
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(anat.) A sac or pouchlike cavity, esp. one containing a fluid that reduces friction, as between a tendon and bone.
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(place) City in NW Turkey: capital of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th cent.
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A flattened sac containing a lubricating fluid that reduces friction between two moving structures in the body, as a tendon and a bone.
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(anatomy) Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendonslides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.
A sac or saclike bodily cavity, especially one containing a viscous lubricating fluid and located between a tendon and a bone or at points of friction between moving structures.
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From the Medieval Latin bursa (“purse”); compare purse.
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Bursa Sentence Examples
In all these cases the female duct bears a bursa copulatrix or receptaculum seminis.
It lodges the copulatory organ, and on its dorsal wall lies the bursa Fabricii, an organ peculiar to birds.
From this an equally slender tube proceeds, which joins its fellow of the opposite side, and the two form a thick, walled tube, which opens on to the exterior within the bursa copulatrix through which the penis protrudes.
There is some reason to believe that this complicated and variable apparatus is used for stabbing the body of another animal and that beginning as a weapon for catching prey it has become modified for hypodermic impregnation and only gradually adapted for insertion into the bursa copulatrix.
From this junction there proceeds an oviduct or " uterus " (paired or single) which before opening to the exterior expands to form a muscular protrusible pouch - the bursa copulatrix.