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bursa
/ˈbɝsə/
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What does bursa mean?
noun
- Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.
- A diverticulum on the cloaca of young birds, which serves as a lymphatic organ and as part of the immune system, but which atrophies as the bird ages.
- Any of various pouchlike organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
proper noun
- A province and metropolitan municipality in northwestern Anatolia Turkey, on the Sea of Marmara.
- A city, the capital of Bursa Province, Turkey.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɝsə/
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Although not a joint in the strict sense of the word, we, nevertheless, intend here to consider the navicular bursa as such.
Among the second are these: Medicago lupulina, or nonesuch; Trifolium repens, or white clover; Lathyrus pratensis, or meadow lathyrus; Capsella bursa pastoris, or shepherd's purse; Vicia peregrina, or broad-podded vetch; Convolvulus arvensis, or small bindweed; Pterotheca nemausensis, a sort of hawkweed; and Poa pratensis, or smooth-stalked meadow-grass.