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

In the skull the orbit is surrounded by bone, and the tympanic has a bulla and an ossified external meatus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

According to Pliny the elder, the bulla, or amulet, was first hung by Tarquinius Priscus on the neck of his son.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

It is not dilated into a distinct bulla, but ends in front in a pointed rod-like process.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various