Bursa

Quick meaning: Bursa is a noun meaning Any of various pouchlike organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.

Meaning

Any of various pouchlike organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.

More Meanings

1. (religion) A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
2. (anatomy) 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.
3. 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.

Example Sentences

A bursa may be present deep to coracobrachialis tendon.

The general relations of the bursa to the cloaca are shown in the two accompanying figures.

The bursa is located near the terminal portion of the cloaca and, like the thymus, is a lymphoepithelial organ.

The dark, crescentic area is the opening of the bursa, from which the covering membrane is temporarily withdrawn.

Word Forms

• bursae

Related Words

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