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Bulla

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A locality in the Cobar council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
  3. 3
    A town in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as
  2. 2
    A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull wordnet
  4. 4
    A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:; (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
  5. 5
    (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid wordnet
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  1. 6
    A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
  2. 7
    In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss. historical
  3. 8
    A handwritten document from the papal chancellery. historical
  4. 9
    Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.

    "auditory bulla;   ethmoid bulla"

  5. 10
    Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.; The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance).

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bill and bull (“papal bull; bubble”).

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