Bur·sa (bûr s , b r-sä) A city of northwest Turkey west of Ankara. It dates from the third century b.c. and was a capital of the Ottoman Turks in the 1300s. Population: 1,190,000. |
| bur·sa (bûrs) n. pl. bur·sae (-s  ) or bur·sas A sac or saclike bodily cavity, especially one containing a viscous lubricating fluid and located between a tendon and a bone or at points of friction between moving structures. [Late Latin, purse, pouch, from Greek, skin, wineskin.] bur sal adj. |
| bursa (bûrs) Plural bursae (bûr s) or bursas A flattened sac containing a lubricating fluid that reduces friction between two moving structures in the body, as a tendon and a bone. |
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| Noun | 1. |  Bursa - a city in northwestern Turkey Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 |
| 2. | bursa - a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints sac - a structure resembling a bag in an animal |
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