The bulla was a small object, enclosed in historical times in a capsule, and suspended round the child's neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference

The Coroner also ruled yesterday that a separate find of a gold Bronze Age purse or 'bulla' should be considered a treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

"Brong da bulla," it stated, having freed the bone and flung it away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

The wound was a mess, but he figured the bulla had gone right through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle]

Quickly she caught sight of the leaf of the bulla-tree all sprinkled with water; but the man had gone away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference

The custom of wearing the bulla, which was regarded as a charm against sickness and the evil eye, was of Etruscan origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

A short, rounded occipital crest sat at the back of the head; its syringeal bulla was flattened, rather than rounded as in other pochards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

Cinna would have deemed him a slave except that he wore the bulla around his neck and comported himself like a patrician of a better family than Cornelius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

Features of its syringeal bulla are unique, it has that rounded, bushy head crest, and various details of the plumage on its flanks, wings and neck are unique.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madagascar pochard returns] Reference

After the Second Punic War all children of free birth were permitted to wear it; but those who did not belong to a noble or wealthy family were satisfied with a bulla of leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

There is no bulla and no external ear in the frog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The tympanic bulla of the dog is not indicated in Diagram.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Now I suffer from emphysema, asthma, COPD and bulla disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Physicians in Qatar work on treatment of ovarian cancer] Reference

In Jamaican parlance (for those not aware), bulla refers to a dis.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Adviser: Obama awaiting finished health care bill] Reference

In the external view (Figure 3) the bulla hides the periotic bone from without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

When now my golden bulla (hung on high To houfhold Gods) declar'd me paft a boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

When now my golden bulla (hung on high To houfliold Gods) declar'd. me paft a boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

Clear forward into the angle between the jaw and the bulla tympani, to see XII. and XI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Hemoptysis from anf emphysematous bulla developing after open-heart surgery: report of a case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refinance 2nd Mortgage] Reference

Thefe bulla were fent out lor the Government Houfe at Pondicherry, taken at fea, and fold at Bata via. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The lay of Corneelis: in three cantos, by an officer [T.W. Taylor] who was present at the storm ...] Reference

Sometimes the vessel was flat-shaped, resembling the bulla, or again it took the form of a thimble or little flagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax can be caused by lung diseases that produce the bulla, such as emphysema or asthma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

"Him fella Koho finish along two fella bulla-macow," the black answered, drawing a forefinger significantly across his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son Of The Sun] Reference

On it is a rounded elevation, the bulla ethmoidalis, and below and in front of this is a curved cleft, the hiatus semilunaris.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1b. The Organ of Smell] Reference

The ‘bulla’ was laid aside at the same time as the ‘toga prætexta,’ and was on that occasion consecrated to the Lares.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference

Hidden by the bulla, and just external to the periotic bone, are the auditory ossicles, the incus, malleus, os orbiculare, and stapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

Nam vel duas laminas ftagnans aqua fibi circum - pofuit, vel unica prsgrandis bulla, mire intumefcens, fuper alias minores fe fuperfudit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elementa physiologiae corporis humani ..] Reference