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Shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) is an annual or biennial herb of the family Cruciferae with entire or pinnately lobed basal leaves arranged in a rosette. The stem leaves are small, lanceolate, clasping and sagittate at the base. The flowers are small, white and inconspicuous and arranged in terminal racemes. The fruit is a triangular-obcordate silicula resembling an old-fashioned purse, from whence the plant derives it's name. In some countries the leaves are eaten as a vegetable, and it was traditionally used as a medicine to check haemorrhaging in childbirth and to stop bleeding from open wounds. The active constituents of the plant include the amines chlorine and acetylcholine, bursine, diosmin, organic acids and tannins.
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The articularis genus is an upper leg muscle that pulls back the bursa of the knee as the leg is extended. It is one of the quadriceps muscles and sometime considered a part of the vastus medialis. This muscle originates from the anterior portion of the femur just below the vastus medialis muscle and inserts in the tip of the patellar bursa. It is innervated by the femoral nerve.
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A bunion is an inflamed swelling (bursa or sac) on the foot, especially at the joint of the great toe. Bunions are usually the result of poorly fitted shoes. The part gradually becomes enlarged as fluid fills the bursa or sac. If the bones thicken, it may result in permanent deformity. Treatment sometimes includes surgical removal of the bunion.
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In medicine, a bursa is a fiber sac around the joints between some tendons and the bones under them. Bursae are lined with a membrane that releases synovial fluid from the joint spaces, the bursa acts as a small cushion that allows the tendon as it contracts and relaxes to move over the bone. When the membrane becomes swollen or damaged the condition is known as bursitis or popularly rheumatism.
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Bursitis (rheumatism) is the swelling of the connective tissue (bursa) surrounding a joint, characterised typically by severe pain in the joint, particularly when it is moved.
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Housemaid's knee is a popular name for a swelling of the bursa, or pouch containing serous fluid, which lies just over the kneecap. It was so called because it was common in the Victorian era amongst housemaids from their kneeling on hard damp stones.
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Mihalic Peynir is a Turkish traditional farmhouse vegetarian hard cheese made from un-pasteurised sheep's milk in the Bursa region.
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Bursa is a city in north-west Turkey. It was the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1326 until 1423.
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