bulla
[boo l-uh, buhl-uh]
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noun, plural bul·lae [boo l-ee, buhl-ee] /ˈbʊl i, ˈbʌl i/.
a seal attached to an official document, as a papal bull.
an ancient Roman pendant, consisting of a rounded box containing an amulet.
Pathology. a large vesicle.
Zoology. a blisterlike or bubblelike prominence of a bone, as that of the tympanic bone in the skull of certain mammals.
Origin of bulla
1840–50; < Latin: bubble, also stud, boss, knob (whence Medieval Latin bulla official seal)
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Related Words for bullae
abscess, sore, welt, ulcer, cyst, pimple, carbuncle, wale, weal, sac, bubble, burn, vesicle, canker, boil, blain, vesication, furuncle, bleb, pustuleExamples from the Web for bullae
Historical Examples of bullae
Most of these characters have to do with degree of inflation of the bullae.
American WeaselsE. Raymond Hall
The bullae are less inflated even than in the mink, subgenus Lutreola.
American WeaselsE. Raymond Hall
The bullae are, therefore, relative to the basilar length, longer in primulina.
American WeaselsE. Raymond Hall
Otherwise, the bullae agree with those of the type specimen.
American WeaselsE. Raymond Hall
Specimens from five miles south of Cotopaxi also have the bullae more flattened ventrally.
Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in ColoradoPhillip M. Youngman
bulla
noun plural -lae (-liː)
Word Origin for bulla
C19: from Latin: round object, bubble
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bulla
[bul′ə]
n. pl. bul•lae (bul′ē)
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