bursa
Meanings
Plural: bursae, bursæ
Noun
- a city in northwestern Turkey
- a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints
- 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.
- A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin bursa (“purse”), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa); compare purse and bourse, which are doublets.
Synonyms
Brusa
Scrabble Score: 7
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Words With Friends Score: 9
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