bursa
/ˈbɝsə/ nom C2En français : bourse séreuse, bourse
- 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 pouchlike organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.
- A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
Pluriel bursae
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