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• n  a city in northwestern Turkey
• n  a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints

• During training camp staph infected a bursa sac, which acts as a cushion between bones, in Manning's left knee.
• Somewhat like a small collapsed balloon, the bursa has lax walls and a slick lubricated interior surface that equips it to absorb friction.
• The other type of lymphocyte, the B-cell, undergoes differentiation, in chickens, at least, in an organ called the bursa of Fabricius.

• Bursa
• Brusa

News & Articles

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• Bryce Harper injury: Nationals OF's status remains unclear after 2nd opinion
  Harper, 20, has been sidelined since May 27 with what team doctors have diagnosed as bursitis -- i.e. the swelling of the bursa sac -- in his left knee.
  June 11, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Tony Dungy in CNN
  Santi has a bursa sac infection too although his didn't get quite the national attention Peyton's did,Dungy joked. "My biggest concern is that we don't take things for granted. I think if we focus in, our talent level will be good enough...
• Shaun Micheel in commercialappeal.com (subscription)
  Micheel said Andrews also removed some "bone out of my shoulder and he took off this thing called a bursa, which was thick, and it's not supposed to be."
• Carlos Ghosn in Wall Street Journal
  I confirmed to the French President that we will produce the Clio 4 in Flins, with a double sourcing in Bursa, Turkey,said Mr. Ghosn.