bursa

IPA: bˈɝsʌ

(anatomy) 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 pouch-like organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.
(religion) A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
The capital city of Bursa Province, in northwestern Turkey.
A province in northwestern Turkey.

Examples of "bursa" in Sentences

There are different types of bursa.
The bursa of Fabricius and antibody production.
Bursa is the center of the Turkish automotive industry.
The prepatellar bursa is a frontal bursa of the knee joint.
Bayezid furiously rejected the proposal and marched on Bursa.
The male has a sharp, curved spicule enclosed in a bursa, or sac.
The largest communicative bursa is the suprapatellar bursa described above.
Infection or irritation of a bursa leads to bursitis inflammation of a bursa .
This sentence must be in Bursa Province article and not in Bursa city article.
These are the functions of the thymus system and the bursa system in the chicken.