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

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.

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

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