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Bulla   /bˈʊlə/   Listen
Bulla

noun
(pl. bullae)
1.
(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.  Synonyms: bleb, blister.
2.
The round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull.






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"Bulla" Quotes from Famous Books



... Spec., 7b: Fecit Franciscus regulam quam papa Honorius confirmavit cum bulla, de qua regula multa fuerunt extracta per ministros contra voluntatem b. Francisci. Cf. 2 Cel., ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... denkwurdiger Personen, v. 33. Preuss, i. 24.] They had Latin books, dictionaries, grammars on the table, all the contraband apparatus; busy with it there, like a pair of coiners taken in the fact. Among other Books was a copy of the Golden Bull of Kaiser Karl IV.,—Aurea Bulla, from the little golden BULLETS or pellets hung to it,—by which sublime Document, as perhaps we hinted long ago, certain so-called Fundamental Constitutions, or at least formalities and solemn practices, method of election, rule of precedence, and the like, of the Holy Roman Empire, ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—Friedrich's Apprenticeship, First Stage—1713-1728 • Thomas Carlyle

... him a Bull (a letter so called from the golden bull, or bulla, appended to it), appointing him, as the champion of the Church, to chastise the impious perjurer Harold, and sent him a consecrated banner, and a gold ring containing a ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... steward" is allowed to keep for himself a moiety of what does not belong to him, on condition that the rest be handed over for the maintenance of church services, or institutions of charity, as hospitals, asylums, and the like. See Ferraris's Bibliotheca, art. "Bulla Cruciatae."—Rev. T. C. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 28 of 55) • Various

... conceiving? Art thou not Too old for thy young children? Or perchance, Keep'st thou a youth perpetual-burnishable Beyond thy sons decrepit? It is long Since Time was first a fledgling; Yet thou may'st be but as a pendant bulla Against his stripling bosom swung. Alack! For that we seem indeed To have slipped the world's great leaping-time, and come Upon thy pinched and dozing days: these weeds, These corporal leavings, ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson

... of polynuclear eosinophilia we may best start from an experiment of E. Neusser's. Neusser found in a pemphigus patient, whose blood shewed a considerable increase of the eosinophils, that the contents of the pemphigus bulla consisted almost entirely of eosinophil cells. Neusser now produced a non-specific inflammatory bulla in the skin by a vesicant, and found that the cellular elements in it were exclusively the polynuclear neutrophil concerned ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich



Words linked to "Bulla" :   pustule, water blister, bleb, blood blister, cyst, blister, vesicle, stamp, seal, pathology



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