| bursitis, knee | A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface to reduce friction between moving tissues of the body. There are three major bursae of the knee. Bursitis is usually not infectious, but the bursa can become infected. Treatment of non-infectious bursitis includes rest, ice, and medications for inflammation and pain. Infectious bursitis is treated with antibiotics, aspiration, and surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| bursitis, septic | A bursa is a closed fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface to reduce friction between tissues of the body. When the bursa becomes inflamed, the condition is known as bursitis. When the bursa is infected with bacteria, the condition is called septic bursitis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bursitis, shoulder | A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface to reduce friction between moving tissues of the body. There are two major bursae of the shoulder. Bursitis is usually not infectious, but the bursa can become infected. Treatment of non-infectious bursitis includes rest, ice, and medications for inflammation and pain. Infectious bursitis is treated with antibiotics, aspiration, and surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bursolith | A calculus formed in a bursa. Origin: bursa + G. Lithos, stone (05 Mar 2000) |
| bursopathy | Any disease of a bursa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bursotomy | Incision through the wall of a bursa. Origin: bursa + G. Tome, a cutting (05 Mar 2000) |
| burst | 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring. "From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young." (Milton) Often used figuratively, as of the heart, in reference to a surcharge of passion, grief, desire, etc. "No, no, my heart will burst, an if I speak: And I will speak, that so my heart may burst." (Shak) 2. To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpecedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc. "Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." (Milton) "And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms." (Pope) "A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out." (Shak) "We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea." (Coleridge) "To burst upon him like an earthquake." (Goldsmith) Origin: OE. Bersten, bresten, AS. Berstan (pers. Sing. Berste, imp. Sing. Baerst, imp. Pl. Burston, p.p. Borsten); akin to D. Bersten, G. Bersten, OHG. Brestan, OS. Brestan, Icel. Bresta, Sw. Brista, Dan. Briste. Cf. Brast, Break. 1. To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, especially. From within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors. "My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage." (Shak) 2. To break. "You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?" (Shak) "He burst his lance against the sand below." (Fairfax (Tasso)) 3. To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall. Bursting charge. See Charge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| burst forming unit | <haematology> A bone marrow stem cell lineage detected in culture by its mitotic response to erythropoietin and subsequent erythrocytic differentiation in about 12 mitotic cycles into erythrocytes. (18 Nov 1997) |
| burst number | The number of viral particles that emerge from a cell after a viralinfection has burst it open. (09 Oct 1997) |
| burst size | The number of phages produced by an infected cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| burstwort | <botany> A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bursula | A small pouch or bag. Origin: Mod. L. Dim. Of Mediev. L. Bursa, purse (05 Mar 2000) |
| bursula testium | Archaic term for scrotum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bursitis |
inflammation of a bursa, especially that of the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee or foot cartilage: the connective tissue (containing water, chondrocytes, collagen and proteoglycans) that covers the ends of bones and acts as the body's shock absorber by cushioning the bones from weight-bearing stress
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Bursitis is inflammation or irritation of the small fluid-filled sacs near or involving a joint or bony protrusion that helps reduce friction between a tendon or bone or between bone and skin as we move (bursa). Symptoms of bursitis and tendonitis are similar: pain and stiffness aggravated as we move. The most common cause of bursitis is injury or overuse during work or play.
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a small fluid-filled sac between a tendon and a bone that protects muscles and tendons from coming into direct contact with bones
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Fluid-filled sac near or involving a joint or bony protrusion that help reduce friction between a tendon or bone or between bone and skin as we move.
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of Fabricus. An organ that is similar to the spleen in humans. It produces immune cells called
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