0 a condition in which the bursa (= sacs filled with fluid that protect tissue from injury due to friction) becomes swollen and painful
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.
