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bursa [noun]
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  • bursa : 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.

    • bursa : 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.

      • bursa : Any of various pouch-like organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.

        • bursa : A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.

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