bulla

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The store sold everyday goods and featured a large brick oven that was used to make its famous bulla cakes, flavorful flat pastries made with flour, ginger and molasses.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2021

In ancient times, a seal stamp, or bulla, was used to authenticate documents or items.

From Fox News • Apr. 1, 2019

Below the auditory canal is situated a round prominence, highly developed in carnivora; this is the tympanic bulla, also called the mastoid protuberance; it is an appendage of the tympanum.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The auditory bulla and the tympanic are divided by an internal partition.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various