Bullae

Word BULLAE
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Definitions and meanings of "Bullae"

What do we mean by bullae?

A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion.

A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.

In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.

Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.

The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance)

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The word "bullae" in example sentences

For example, when traders in the Mediterranean region circa 3000 BC invented seals called bullae to ensure that their shipments reached their destinations tamper-free, they transformed commerce from local to long distance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Large blisters, like these, are called bullae alkaptonuria, ochronosis X-ray lower lumbo-sacral spine and sacro-iliac joints showing normal sacro-iliac joints and calcification of intervertebral discs alkaptonuria, ochronosis grossly calcified intervertebal discs alkaptonuria, ochronosis early ankylosis of spine alkaptonuria, ochronosis bluish spots on his sclera alkaptonuria, ochronosis Bluish discoloration os ear cartillage hypertrophic osteoarthropathy Note diffuse periosteal new bone formation of the distal radius and ulna. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Compared to wolves, domestic dogs are smaller and have proportionally smaller teeth, a wider palate, broader braincase and higher frontals, and smaller, less rounded auditory bullae. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Species of the latter are specialized for life at high latitudes, and have short tails, a reduced hallux and inflated auditory bullae. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

On the second, swelling of the whole foot, and about the ankle erythema, with distention, and small bullae (phlyctaenae); acute fever; he became furiously deranged; alvine discharges bilious, unmixed, and rather frequent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The outlay to make forged clay bullae -- clay lumps used to seal papyri and packages -- and add a biblical name to them is virtually nothing, and these things go for anywhere from $100,000 on up depending on what is on the bulla. ❋ Unknown (2005)

However, their fathers were wonderfully pleased to see their children going daily to the schools in good order, handsomely dressed in gowns edged with purple, and that Sertorius paid for their lessons, examined them often, distributed rewards to the most deserving, and gave them the golden bosses to hang about their necks, which the Romans called bullae. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

The building, estimated to cover some 20,000 square feet, has so far yielded more than 3,000 bullae -- clay document seals -- that are remains of an archive, according to Sharon C. Herbert of the University of Michigan, who is conducting the excavation with Andrea M. Berlin of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Herbert is most fascinated, however, by a handful of bullae that are stylistically Phoenician. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Herbert reported that 90 percent of the bullae are in the Greek style, with naturalistic renderings of gods and goddesses, while others depict monarchs and private individuals. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The best-known instances are the papal _bullae_, which have given their name to the documents (bulls) to which they are attached. ❋ Various (N/A)

Most of the ladies did the same by their ornaments, with the bullae [99], and mantles of their children. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

The presents which were made him (197) by Pompeia, sister to Sextus Pompey, in Sicily, namely, a cloak, with a clasp, and bullae of gold, are still in existence, and shewn at Baiae to this day. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

Friends brought presents, especially neck-bands in the form of a half-moon (_lunulae_), and the golden balls (_bullae_) which were worn as a charm round the neck until the attainment of manhood. ❋ Cyril Bailey (1914)

The custom of bearing on the person objects of this character was evidently derived from the pagan practice of wearing bullae, containing amulets, round the neck as a protection against enchantment; the Church endeavoured to purify this usage from superstition by substituting objects venerated by Christians for those to which they had been accustomed before conversion. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Let us, every one of us, bring our gold and silver and bronze money, tomorrow, to the treasury, only reserving the rings for ourselves, our wives and our children, and the bullae for our boys. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Sometimes it presents flaccid bullae like pemphigus foliaceus, and then there are crusts as well as scales, with rhagades on the mouth, anus, etc.; there is a total absence of fever or other general symptoms. ❋ Unknown (1896)

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