See Also: bursectomy(medicine)
bursectomy(dictionary)

bursectomy (iou)



bursectomy noun. E20.
[from BURSA: see -ECTOMY.]
Surgical removal or (hormonal) destruction of a bird's bursa of Fabricius, esp. in immunological research; an instance of this.
bur'sectomize verb trans. perform bursectomy on E20.