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

G to G' Depth of cranium.—The distance from the dorsalmost part of the braincase to a flat plane touching tips of incisors and ventral border of each auditory bulla.

From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.

A boy with a bulla, sitting, from Tarquinii, is "supposed to represent Tages, the mysterious boy-god, who sprung from the furrows of that site."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Ursidae are characterized by the very small tympanic bulla, and the broad paroccipital process, which is, however, independent of the bulla.

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