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Bulla

Bulla \Bul"la\, n.; pl. Bull[ae]. [L. bulla bubble. See Bull an edict.]

  1. (Med.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

  2. (Anat.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

  3. A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bulla

1876, from Latin bulla (plural bullae), literally "bubble" (see bull (n.2)).

Wiktionary
bulla

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context medicine English) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion. 2 (context archaeology English) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents. 3 (context historical English) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. 4 Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery. Etymology 2

n. A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.

WordNet
bulla
  1. n. (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister, bleb]

  2. the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull

  3. [also: bullae (pl)]

Wikipedia
Bulla (gastropod)

Bulla is a genus of medium to large hermaphrodite sea snails, shelled marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs. These herbivorous snails are in the suborder Cephalaspidea, headshield slugs, and the order Opisthobranchia.

These snails are popularly known as "bubble snails", and their shells as "bubble shells", because the shell of some of the species is very inflated indeed, almost spherical in shape, and is also very thin and light.

According to some experts, Bulla is currently the only genus in the family Bullidae, which in turn is the only member of the superfamily Bulloidea.

Bulla

Bulla (plural bullae) is Latin for bubble.

Bulla or bullae may refer to:

Bulla (amulet)

Bulla, an amulet worn like a locket, was given to male children in Ancient Rome nine days after birth. Rather similar objects are rare finds from Late Bronze Age Ireland. Roman bullae were enigmatic objects of lead, for the well-off covered in gold foil. A bulla was worn around the neck as a locket to protect against evil spirits and forces. A bulla was made of differing substances depending upon the wealth of the family. Before the age of manhood, Roman boys wore a bulla, a neckchain and round pouch containing protective amulets (usually phallic symbols), and the bulla of an upper-class boy would be made of gold. Other materials included leather and cloth.

A girl child did not wear a bulla, but another kind of amulet, like lunula until the eve of her marriage, when it was removed along with her childhood toys and other things. She would then stop wearing child's clothes and start wearing women's Roman Dress. A boy used to wear a bulla until he became a Roman citizen at the age of 16. His bulla was carefully saved, and on some important occasions, like his becoming a general and commanding a parade, the bulla was taken out. He would wear the bulla during the ceremony to safeguard against evil forces like the jealousy of men.

Bulla (seal)

Bulla (plural bullae, Middle Persian: gil muhrag) is the term used to refer to inscribed pieces of clay used by the Sumerians in 8th millennia BCE. They were used for agricultural transactions as a form of identification and for tamper-proofing. They served as receipts and encapsulated clay tokens that represented the quantity and types of goods borrowed. After the creation of Papyrus and parchment they developed into inscribed pieces of clay or metal used to seal documents or parcels. This suggests evidence about some of the earliest forms of specialization in the ancient world, moving from a purely agricultural society to a settled society. Therefore, it's likely only skilled and trained individuals could have created this form of administrative system.

Usage examples of "bulla".

Information Amos Bulla fielded new questions like a man before a firing squad dodging bullets.

The inhabitatants-as they were called-were fast asleep, from the tiniest songbird to Project Director Bulla in his mobile home a quarter mile away.

Amos Bulla walked around the still-warm zone of glazed, brownish glass that surrounded the defunct BioBubble.

As soon as the equipment was off-loaded, the choppers took off and began circling the site, taping aerial and establishing shots of the glass pancake that had supported Amos Bulla for six fat, happy years.

Amos Bulla squatting in the red sandstone dust clutching his eyes and screaming inarticulately.

The Master of Sinanju eased back on the pressure, and Bulla stopped howling.

Tom Pulse exchanged glances while Bulla waved his hands in front of his blinking bloodshot eyes.

The name Venus Mango had surfaced on the phone records of BioBubble director Amos Bulla a number of times.

They stopped in the evening at Mount Bulla Bulla, on the edge of the Jungalla Creek.

Cliff Roberts immediately summoned not Bulla, but Haas, to his office.

Iarbas the usurper went to earth in Bulla Regis-a town on the upper Bagradas River-having heard that I was approaching from the east and Bogud from the west.

Sometimes it presents flaccid bullae like pemphigus foliaceus, and then there are crusts as well as scales, with rhagades on the mouth, anus, etc.

Cousin Faisal showed us around the beautiful Roman houses in the ruins at nearby Bulla Regia, and his wife, Mona, and her mother spent a day preparing the lamb couscous of Beja, full of nuts and dates and very sweet.

Let us, every one of us, bring our gold and silver and bronze money, tomorrow, to the treasury, only reserving the rings for ourselves, our wives and our children, and the bullae for our boys.

You collected empty Sarcophaga bullata pupa rial cases and intact pup aria from both bodies.