Examples of bursitis

• An adventitious bursa forms over the acromion process in porters and others who carry weights on the shoulder, and may be the seat of traumatic bursitis. 

• Penetrating deep heat such as diathermy or ultrasound is expensive and should be reserved for specific indications such as periarticular problems like bursitis.

• A man who suffers from chronic bursitis is now covered, whereas previously the prescription was simply for acute bursitis.

• As already explained, there is a chronic bursitis which is not a disabling condition, and this would be covered if the word "acute" were omitted.

• It mentions, for example, that there appears to be a case for prescribing bursitis of the shoulder.

• Bursitis of the knee and of the elbow have been prescribed for many years.

• Then there was the case of the gas-fitter who contracted bursitis of the right shoulder as the result of carrying a heavy bag of tools.

• Otherwise, it is such a specific term that a man might have bursitis causing a certain kind of pain which would not come under your definition.