bulla

Definitions

1. A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as
4. A locality in the Cobar council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
5. A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
6. (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
7. A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
8. A town in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia.
9. In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
   historical
10. A handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
    historical
11. Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.
12. The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance).

Equivalents

Examples

“auditory bulla;   ethmoid bulla”

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