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bursitis

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the inflammation of one or more bursae (small sacs) of synovial fluid in the body. [...] There are more than 150 bursae in the human body. The bursae rest at the points where internal functionaries, such as muscles and tendons, slide across bone. Healthy bursae create a smooth, almost frictionless functional gliding surface making normal movement painless. When bursitis occurs, however, movement relying on the inflamed bursa becomes difficult and painful.

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General Dreedle had the uncooperative fighter-plane commander transferred to the Soloman Islands to dig graves and replaced him with a senile colonel with bursitis and a craving for litchi nuts [...].

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.252 (1961)
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