The bursae most commonly involved are the prepatellar and that over the metatarsal joint of the great toe.
Deep bursae are sometimes connected with the joints, or are in very close relation with them.
On the outer border of the foot, where the weight is borne, callosities and bursae develop; the calves of the legs are small, and the knee joint may be lax.
The astragalus is partially displaced forward and forms a prominence on the dorsum of the foot; the plantar fascia is shortened and callosities and bursae are formed under the heads of the metatarsal bones.
Wounds of bursae should be thoroughly disinfected and drained; they usually heal with obliteration of the sac.
This affection may result from acute bursitis which does not terminate in suppuration, or may develop slowly from long continued irritation or pressure, or from tubercular infection of the bursae and is accompanied by little pain.
The thecae and bursae of the leg are several in number.
In a general way, inflammation and other affections of bursae and thecae are considered very similar to like affections of joints.
Inflammation of bursae and thecae may be classified on a chronological basis with propriety because the duration of such affections, in many cases, materially modifies the result.
Synovial distension of tendon sheaths and bursae in the region of the fetlock are caused by the same active agencies which produce this condition in other parts.
The noninfectious inflammation of bursae and thecae usually result from contusions or strains and generally run their course without becoming infective in character, where vitality and resistance of the subject are normal.
However, in general practice a classification on an etiological basis is probably more practical and we shall consider inflammation ofbursae and thecae as infectious and noninfectious.
Blisters on the skin and inflammation of bursae (capped hock and shoe boil) are examples of this type.
Wounds involving muscles, tendons and bursae usually cause lameness, and when involving a special organ, interfere with, or destroy, its function.
Most people know that bunions are inflammations of the bursae which form over the metacarpo-phalangeal joint of the big toe whenever there is pressure and irritation of it.
I have seen bursae over {400} the elbows of miners, and in one case saw one of these inflamed so that miner's elbow became a concrete entity.
Cloacal bursae seem to be vestigial in the species of Terrapene possessing them and to be of little or no use as respiratory structures (except perhaps in T.
The taxonomic significance of cloacal bursaein turtles.
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