(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.
Purse
Definition:
(n.) A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie.
(n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
(n.) A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
(n.) A specific sum of money
(n.) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
(n.) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
(v. t.) To put into a purse.
(v. t.) To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
(v. i.) To steal purses; to rob.
Example Sentences:
(1) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(2) Postoperative urodynamic studies have shown maximum capacity of 750 ml and the area of continence to be at the ileocecal valve where the purse-string sutures are placed.
(3) The technique involves the use of an extra-long sheath for filter placement and the application of a purse-string suture at the venipuncture site to facilitate hemostasis.
(4) In the interview, he similarly suggested he was willing to give the president leeway within Congress’ rights to reject nominees and control the White House’s purse.
(5) The public purse was helped by a 3.7% increase in tax receipts against a backdrop of economic growth and falling unemployment.
(6) Arsenal at Stoke has become one of the set pieces of Premier League football, a fixture almost certain to leave Wenger with pursed lips even if Tony Pulis and his rugby tactics have been replaced by Mark "over-physical, moi?"
(7) Subjects were placed alone in a room where purposeful oral activity such as eating, talking and smoking was not permitted, while activity such as pursing the lips sucking on cheeks, grimaces etc was measured by a specially designed electromyometer.
(8) They told Gutiérrez to gather what belonged to her - her clothes, her purse, her little boy - and come with them.
(9) Our presence underwrites the multi-use legacy of the stadium and our contribution alone will pay back more than the cost of building and converting the stadium over the course of our tenancy.” West Ham added in a later statement: “The worldwide draw of hosting the most popular and watched football league in the world in such an iconic venue will add value to any sponsorship and commercial agreements related to the stadium, which the public purse stands to further benefit from.
(10) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
(11) There were three distinct groups of operative techniques: (1) the purse-string technique in 40 patellectomies; (2) the vastus medialis technique in 24 patellectomies; (3) other techniques in 49 patellectomies.
(12) Unfortunately this will perpetuate the myth that loosening central bank purse strings is the answer, when that acts less like a bazooka and more like a popgun.
(13) For those who didn't know: academics, funded mostly by the public purse, pay for the production and dissemination of papers; but for historical reasons, these are published by private organisations that charge around $30 (£18.50) per paper, keeping out any reader who doesn't have access through their institution.
(14) There may be technical difficulties in the use of recommended clamp for the insertion of the purse-string suture during the construction of an end-to-end staple anastomosis.
(15) City analysts said Prudential's aim to tap investors in the coming two months follows huge demands on the purse strings of investors who have been asked to back fundraisings by London-listed companies worth almost £60bn over two years.
(16) This work shows our personal technique for performing esophagoenterostomy, especially in the thoracic area, using the new CEEA stapler (Autosuture) without esophageal purse-string sutures.
(17) In the end, said Green, “the essence of the case is about whether it is lawful for states to prevent the tobacco industry from continuing to make profits by using their trademarks and other rights to further what the World Health Organisation describes as a health crisis of epidemic proportions and which imposes an immense cleanup cost on the public purse.
(18) That has the advantage for the Conservatives of taking the burden of the hungry off the public purse, shrinking the state and preparing the poor for a harsher labour market in the process.
(19) Just as Banksy causes collateral damage to the neatness of walls, so Amazon's masterpiece is a defacement of the public purse.
(20) "It is vital that local health bodies and local councils look carefully at the guidance as it clearly sets out how, in the long run, investing in support for adults with autism will save money to the public purse," the National Autistic Society stresses.