retrohyoid bursa

[ rĕt′rō-hī′oid′ ]

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A bursa between the posterior surface of the body of the hyoid bone and the thyrohyoid membrane.Boyer's bursa

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The chief of this caravan was called Hoyarbarach; he was a native of Bursa, and one of its principal inhabitants.
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She came up out of the stern like some hibernating brown animal of the bursa family.
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The navicular bone and bursa and the tendon of the perforans also suffer from the effects of compression.
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The tissues of the bone and bursa are insufficiently nourished, and the secretion of synovia lessened.
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Here the plantar aponeurosis, the navicular bursa, the navicular bone itself, or the pedal articulation may be injured.
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