Usually means: Sac containing fluid, reduces friction.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word bursa:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bursa, bursa: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bursa, bursa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bursa, bursa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bursa: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bursa, bursa: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bursa, bursa: Wordnik
  7. Bursa, bursa: Wiktionary
  8. bursa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bursa: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bursa: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bursa: Dictionary.com
  12. Bursa (Romanian newspaper), Bursa (anatomy), Bursa (disambiguation), Bursa (electoral district), Bursa (genus), Bursa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bursa: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bursa: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bursa: Rhymezone
  16. Bursa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Bursa: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. bursa: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bursa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Bursa: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursa-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bursa (Turkey), bursa: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. bursa: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bursa: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. bursa: Natural Health glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Bursa: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. bursa: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  9. Bursa (Turkey), Bursa (anatomy), bursa: Medical dictionary
  10. Bursa: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursa: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bursa: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See bursae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bursa)

noun:  (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.
noun:  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.
noun:  Any of various pouch-like organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.
noun:  (religion) A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
noun:  A city in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey, the capital of Bursa Province.
noun:  A province in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey, around the city.

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