bursa

McVay said a few days later that a bursa sac in Nacua’s knee had burst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024

"The loss of mechanical integrity in the uninjured tendon in the absence of the bursa was striking," Thomopoulos says.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

"But we really don't know the role of the bursa in rotator cuff disease, so we don't know the full implications of removing it," Thomopoulos says.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

Small fluid-filled sacs called bursa, which normally cushion the joint, may instead swell and ache.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

In most cases it is merely the deltoid muscle and the subcutaneous tissue over it that are bruised, but sometimes a hæmatoma forms either in the muscle or in the sub-deltoid bursa.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

Dolphins and other toothed whales, such as the beluga, echolocate via a specialized organ called the dorsal bursae, which sits at the top of their head, close to the blowhole.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 3, 2021

To study the role of the organ, Glick and his colleagues used chickens that had had their bursae removed for an unrelated experiment.

From Nature ● Jan. 5, 2015

Three major bursae and a fat pad are part of the complex joint that unites the femur and tibia of the leg.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Two bursae, the subacromial bursa and the subscapular bursa, help to prevent friction between the rotator cuff muscle tendons and the scapula as these tendons cross the glenohumeral joint.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Lack of cloacal bursae in T. ornata and in all testudinids, can be correlated with the completely terrestrial habits of those turtles.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler