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

Postremo Regina summis precibus Sanctissimum Dominum Nostrum orat, ut quem sibi delegerit sacerdotem, possit ab eo in confessione sacramentali absolvi a cunctibus casibus etiam Sedi Apostolicæ reservatis, atque in bulla coenae Domini contentis.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

The stylohyal is loosely attached along its sides to the tympanic bulla and finally attached, at the posterior end, to the bulla at a point slightly ventral and posterior to the auditory meatus.

From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by White, John A.