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bulla
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister , bleb ] the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull [also: bullae (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1876, from Latin bulla (plural bullae ), literally "bubble" (see bull (n.2)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulla \Bul"la\, n.; pl. Bull[ae] . [L. bulla bubble. See Bull an edict.] (Med.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid. (Anat.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; ...
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.