Bursa

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anatomy and zoology, a pouch, sac, or vesicle: variously applied with a qualifying term.
  • n. [capitalized] A genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Brassicaceæ. See Capsella and shepherd's-purse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints
  • n. a city in northwestern Turkey
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sac    metropolis    urban center    city   
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    bursae   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bursae    scrotum    periosteum    spavin    flexor    gallbladder    internode    fasciae    ulcerations    fibrosis