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Bulla

Definitions: Bulla

Bulla

Noun

1. (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.

2. The round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Bulla \Bul"la\, noun; plural Bull[ae]. [Latin expression bulla bubble. See Bull an edict.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Bulla

Synonyms: bleb (n), blister (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bulla

English words defined with "bulla": Bullae. (references)
Etymologies containing "bulla": bulletin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bulla" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Finnish (bull), Hungarian (bull), Latin (boss, bowling, bubble, bull, bullet, formal papal document, knob, round thing, sealed document, stud), Spanish (boisterousness, fuss, noise), Swedish (bull).

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Commercial Usage: Bulla

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bulla Bulla : an illustrated history of the shire of Bulla (reference)

  • El movimiento obrero en Cataluña bajo el franquismo : entrevistas con Antoni Mullor, Paco Frutos, José Luis López Bulla y Carles Navales (reference)

  • Recherches archéologiques franco-tunisiennes à Bulla Regia (reference)

  • Sixtus IV:s bulla 1477 för Uppsala universitet i svensk 1600-talstradering (reference)

  • Skull morphology of Lambdopsalis bulla (Mammalia, Multituberculata) and its implications to mammalian evolution (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Bulla

Illustrations:
Bulla

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Photo Album: Bulla

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Nodular skin lesions of blastomycosis, one of which is a bullous lesion on top of a nodule. Aspiration of the bulla revealed yeast forms of Blastomyces dermatitidis. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bulla

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Human Rights

Tunisia

CNLT also reported the suspicious deaths while in prison of Ryadh Bouslama (22 years old) on December 29, 2000, in Monastir, and of Zine Ben Brik on April 27, at the Bulla Reggia prison in Jendouba. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bulla

"Bulla" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bulla" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Bulla

The following table summarizes the usage of "bulla" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BullaLast name20030,679
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bulla

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bulla

32

bulla mt

17

bulla mount

10

bulla la

3

clyde robert bulla

3

robert bulla

2

elma bulla

2

bulla cake

2

bulla lung

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bulla

Language Translations for "bulla"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bulla (bleb, bled, blister), blist (aphtha, bleb, bled, blister, blister from burns, vesicle), blegne (aphtha, bleb), blære (bladder, bubble), vable (bleb, bled, blister, blister from burns, vesicle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bulla (bled, blister), blaasje (blister), blaar (blister), huidblaas (bled, blister), huidblaar (bled, blister), flycteen (bleb). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

bulla (bull), vesirakkula (bleb, vesicle), vesikkeli (bleb, vesicle), vesikello (bleb). (various references)

   

French

  

bulle (bubble, bull), phlyctène (blister from burns), ampoule (bulb). (various references)

   

German

  

Bulla (bled, blister), Blase (bladder, blister, bubble, cyst). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πομφόλυγα (bleb), φυσαλίδα (blister), φλύκταινα (pock, pustule). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bolla (bead, bill, blister, bubble, bull, note), vescicola (small blister, vesicle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ullabay

   

Romanian

  

bulã (bull). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bula (indulgence), ampolla (ampoule, ampule, bleb, blister, bulb, phial). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

папська булла. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bulla

Derivations

Words beginning with "bulla": bullace, bullaces, bullae, bullate. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bulla" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abulla, balla, billa, Billah, Billam, Bolla, Bollan, boula, Boulac, Boulia, Buellia, Bulaleh, Bulat, bulaz, bulba, bulcan, bule, bullae, Bullar, bulle, bulli, Bullo, bullox, Bwllfa, ebula, kulla, nulla, ulla. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bulla"

Words rhyming with "bulla" (pronounced 'Bul"la'): Ala, Algarovilla, Ampulla, Angola, Armilla, Arolla, Axilla, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Cabrilla, Calcavella, Calla, Camarilla, Canella, Capella, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella, Codilla, Columbella, Columella, Coronilla, Fibrilla, flotilla, Fovilla, Fringilla, gala, Gentianella, gorgonzola, gorilla, granadilla, guerilla, Gula, koala, lamella, Lirella, Locustella, mammilla, mandola, mantilla, Manzanilla, Marginella. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bulla

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-l-l-u"

-1 letter: ball, bull.

-2 letters: alb, all, bal, lab.

-3 letters: ab, al, ba, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-l-l-u"
 

+1 letter: bullae.

 

+2 letters: baleful, ballute, bullace, bullate, bullbat, lobular, lullaby, rubella, rulable.

 

+3 letters: bacillus, ballutes, blameful, blastula, blueball, brucella, brutally, buccally, bullaces, bullbats, bullhead, bullyrag, clubable, clubhaul, culpable, culpably, fullback, furlable, globular, gullable, gullably, labellum, laudable, laudably, lobulate, lubrical, puffball, pullback, pushball, rubellas, sillabub, sourball, syllabub, syllabus, tableful, umbellar, umbrella, valuable, valuably.

 

+4 letters: balefully, banefully, barrelful, bashfully, bilingual, blastulae, blastulas, blueballs, botulinal, brucellae, brucellas, buckyball, buildable, bullheads, bullyrags, clubbable, clubhauls, cubically, curveball, flabellum, flashbulb, flushable, fullbacks, laughable, laughably, lobulated, lullabied, lullabies, plausible, plausibly, puffballs, pullbacks, punchball, pushballs, quillback, sillabubs, sourballs, subcellar, sublethal, syllabubs, tablefuls, tablesful, umbellate, umbilical, umbrellas, unflyable, unlabeled, unlikable, unlivable, unlovable, unsalable, valuables.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bulla


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 6C 6C 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    .-..    .-..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01101100 01101100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#108 &#108 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 006C 006C 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3687787867

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Bulla"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsetanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, danez, danés, датський, датська мова

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, holandés, голландська мова, голландський

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandezã, finlandés, finés, фінська мова, фінський

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, francés, французька мова, французький

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, neamţ, alemán, німкеня, німецький, німець

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, greacã, griego, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumæner, Roemeens, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, rumeno, român, rumano, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español, іспанський, іспанська мова

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, englezesc, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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