How to Use bursitis in a Sentence
bursitis
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The 93-year-old, who has hip bursitis, used his 5-wood to make a hole-in-one on the third hole last month at Green Valley.
—Brandon Hannahs, USA TODAY, 18 May 2018
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Kremchek said Herrera had one bone spur on the back of his shoulder, and also had some bursitis that was able to be cleaned up.
—Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 2 Aug. 2017
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Tendonitis in his right elbow and bursitis in his right shoulder forced him to set down his guitar and mandolin in the ’90s.
—Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 25 Jan. 2018
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Koehler, 31, was on the disabled list for one month last season because of bursitis in his right shoulder.
—Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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Gay, who has been battling right heel bursitis, has not played since Dec. 28, should give the Spurs an extra body to use at Leonard’s position.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Feb. 2018
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Parker was seventy-one, small and thin with big dark eyes, and suffered from a weak heart, bursitis, and reduced eyesight.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2020
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His stamina in the face of a punishing schedule amazes the people who travel with him — who don’t have ankylosing spondylitis or bursitis in the knee.
—Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 29 June 2017
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Before the game, the Mariners announced that the team’s ace, Felix Hernandez, was expected to miss three to four weeks because of bursitis in his right shoulder.
—The Associated Press, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2017
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Brown missed his second game in a row because of shoulder bursitis and Robert Williams missed his fifth consecutive game because of a sore knee.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
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Rodon spent nearly three months recovering from left biceps bursitis and made just three starts before the All-Star break.
—Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
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Chapman has not pitched since May 12 because of what Girardi has called tendinitis and bursitis in the left shoulder.
—Associated Press, latimes.com, 24 May 2017
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Ahmed said the discomfort, which has been diagnosed as bursitis and biceps tendinitis, can be traced back to the injury that bothered him for much of last year.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2021
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Johnson, too Back, but not all the way back, on Saturday was forward James Johnson, who had missed the previous three games with bursitis in his right ankle.
—Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2017
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Gay is expected to miss two weeks after an MRI late last month revealed retrocalcaneal bursitis in his right heel.
—Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
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Also, center Robert Williams was sidelined with left hip bursitis.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
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Besides muscle pulls, I’d be concerned about bone lesions, nerve compression, trauma to the soft tissues in the joint (such as a labral tear), bursitis or blockages in the arteries to the hip.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2022
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This is the second stint on the DL for Tropeano because of a shoulder problem that recently was diagnosed as bursitis.
—Jeff Miller, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
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Gay missed 23 games beginning in December while dealing with bursitis in his right heel.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
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The most common of these injuries include carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, or bursitis of the shoulder or elbows.
—Susan Wagner, NBC News, 5 July 2022
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Charlotte is expected to be without starting center Cody Zeller, who did not play against the Clippers due to left shoulder bursitis.
—Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2021
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With center Dwight Powell out because of bursitis in his left knee, the Mavericks struggled to get much going inside.
—Michael Wagaman, star-telegram, 28 Mar. 2018
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Hahn said Thursday the left-hander should miss six to eight months after the surgery, which revealed significant bursitis, which was removed in Wednesday's surgery.
—USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017
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C Cody Zeller, who missed the last two games with left shoulder bursitis, entered the game listed as probable and played 16 minutes off the bench, scoring eight points and grabbing seven rebounds. .
—Chron, 24 Mar. 2021
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The most common causes of knee pain include bursitis, meniscus tears, arthritis and sprained ligaments.
—Ebony Williams, ajc, 18 Apr. 2022
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The veteran small forward was sidelined in late December with bursitis in his right heel and expected back within two weeks.
—Ailene Voisin, sacbee, 29 Jan. 2018
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His elbow bursitis — initiated by that fall into the second row in Game 2 of last year’s Western Conference Finals, when court-side fans didn’t catch — has flared up again.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 22 May 2017
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The procedure involved debridement of Puk’s labrum and rotator cuff and a clean-out of his shoulder because of bursitis, Paparesta said.
—Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2020
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Detroit ended up being thinner at center than expected, as Plumlee was a late scratch with bursitis in his right elbow.
—Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2021
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Johnson has only recently regained his stride, after missing six games in a seven game stretch due to ankle bursitis.
—Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Jan. 2018
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The plan was for another round of physical therapy, with a different approach, to help his chronic bursitis.
—al, 3 Aug. 2021
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