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bursa

/bur-suh/US // ˈbɜr sə //UK // (ˈbɜːsə) //

法氏囊,法囊,法袋

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bur·sae [bur-see], /ˈbɜr si/, bur·sas.

    • : Anatomy, Zoology. a pouch, sac, or vesicle, especially a sac containing synovia, to facilitate motion, as between a tendon and a bone.

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Examples

  • The chief of this caravan was called Hoyarbarach; he was a native of Bursa, and one of its principal inhabitants.

  • She came up out of the stern like some hibernating brown animal of the bursa family.

  • The navicular bone and bursa and the tendon of the perforans also suffer from the effects of compression.

  • The tissues of the bone and bursa are insufficiently nourished, and the secretion of synovia lessened.

  • Here the plantar aponeurosis, the navicular bursa, the navicular bone itself, or the pedal articulation may be injured.