(n.) Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bursa of Fabricius, thymus glands and spleen of chickens were also shown to express mRNA coding for ANP.
(2) The B.2+ cells represent the second major cell population of the bursa.
(3) An operation for chronic prepatellar bursitis is described in which only the posterior wall of the bursa is excised, thus preserving, undamaged, healthy and normally sensitive skin.
(4) Bacterial cultures were also made of condemned bursas taken at processing.
(5) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
(6) A radiological survey of 1204 members of the population of Bursa revealed a high prevalence of spina bifida occulta (16.3%).
(7) Bursas from some of these chicks were examined for infectious bursal agent-specific fluorescence four days after vaccination and bursas from others were examined for histological lesions of infectious bursal disease 21 days after vaccination.
(8) The patients all responded well to local drainage and excision of the bursa.
(9) The past history of the bursa will be remembered for its contribution to present and future research and the present and future will be promising if the experiences of the past are not forgotten.
(10) The MI response was however depressed in both age groups, and the thymus and bursa were involuted.
(11) We have previously shown that progesterone receptor (PR) is expressed in the mesothelium of the chick oviduct and ovary and in the smooth muscle cells of the oviduct and the bursa of Fabricius.
(12) The avian bursa is easily accessible experimentally, and in the chicken, it has been the subject of extensive research.
(13) Coccidial life-cytle stages were detected in the bursa of Fabricius of broiler chickens inoculated with Eimeria tenella, whether or not the chickens had previously been infected with infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV).
(14) Infectious bursal disease virus alone induced a persistent depression of Ia-expressing cells in the bursa and the spleen and no measurable change in the bone marrow lymphocyte subpopulations.
(15) The trochanteric bursa is anatomically quite susceptible to traumatic injury.
(16) Furthermore, the spleen is reached by B-determined stem cells as early as the bursa, but these stem cells seem not to proliferate in the former to any considerable extent until hatching.
(17) The proportion of rats that maintained a bursa-free ovary did not change over the 5-week period (80-89%).
(18) Essential bursal microenvironmental elements, however, are altered or lost following TP treatment, while bursae from Cy-injected birds can be reconstituted with donor precursors.
(19) (f) Fluid is not detected in subacromial-subdeltoid bursae.
(20) The lining cells were flat fibrocytes one cell thick in the smaller bursas, and round stratified cells in the larger bursas.
Bursar
Definition:
(n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
(n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bursar could not have known that Valemont’s activities had come under scrutiny from an inquiry probing an audacious international money-laundering scheme .
(2) There was nothing here to trouble the school bursar, who did nothing wrong.
(3) His father, the Rev Harry Carpenter, was Warden of Keble College, and Humphrey recalled as a small boy roaming the gothic vastness of the lodgings and college on his tricycle, terrorising the undergraduates and bursar in what he described as "a wonderful Gormenghast existence".
(4) Payne says she has had no guidance in how to apply for available money either, and the bursar, Elizabeth Harrex, confirms that there has been no communication from the local authority.
(5) A fastidiously shoe-shone testament to the lament that modern British politics doesn't attract the best and the brightest, Duncan Smith would, in a true meritocracy, have come out of a distinctly average stint in the army and taken a position as a bursar of some minor public school clinging desperately to the Sussex cliffs.
(6) Brinton, a former Cambridge university bursar, who has moved to Watford, dismisses Harrington as a well-heeled novice ("his literature is hopeless"), a latecomer and – for Muslim voters – executive board chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel.
(7) This, says the school's bursar, Dawn Revess, will be “the real community hub, the equivalent of the local village hall.” So far it has hosted a talk by the Met Police commissioner and a couple of commercial conferences.
(8) He had led a fairly active life and recently retired (1986) as a bursar from a secondary school.