What's the difference between balderdash and bulla?

Balderdash


Definition:

  • (n.) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
  • (n.) Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
  • (v. t.) To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
  • (2) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
  • (3) The balderdash quotient is high at all party conferences, but at a time like this people will wince more than ever at high-minded phrases from government ministers that disguise a very different reality.
  • (4) That kind of balderdash brings politics into disrepute.

Bulla


Definition:

  • (n.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
  • (n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.
  • (n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
  • (n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A hallmark of C. septicum infection is the absence of acute inflammatory cells in involved tissues or in bulla fluid.
  • (2) These criteria were typed as A through D starting with nuclear homogenization and passing through vesicle formation, bulla formation and finally ulceration.
  • (3) We recommend this skin incision for young patients with pneumothorax if the chest CT scan confirms that the bullae or blebs are localized to the apex of superior segment of the lower lobe.
  • (4) To test ciliary clearance, the fluid was placed in either the tympanum or the mastoid bulla.
  • (5) At the end of the experimental period, tissue specimens were obtained, and histomorphometric evaluation of the ventral bullae was performed.
  • (6) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
  • (7) The ciliary activity in the bulla was declined at any time examined.
  • (8) The eyes of certain marine gastropods including Aplysia and Bulla, contain circadian pacemakers, which produce a circadian rhythm of autogenous compound action potential (CAP) activity.
  • (9) These findings suggest that pulmonary bullae and eosinophilic pneumonia may be a rare manifestation of pulmonary aspergillosis.
  • (10) Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from blood and bullae in both patients.
  • (11) Twenty guinea pigs were immunized with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) intradermally and challenged with 5 mg of the same antigen in the tympanic bulla.
  • (12) In the present experiments, human temporal bones, guinea pigs' bullae and plastic models were used.
  • (13) Papillary dermal edema, subepidermal bullae, and spongiosis were prominent.
  • (14) Acute inflammation was followed by the development of highly vascular granulation tissue and formation of new bone within the middle ear bulla.
  • (15) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
  • (16) This method makes it possible to examine both mediastinal pleura and adhesive pleural space, and to electrocoagulate bullae which cannot be visualized by a rigid thoracoscope.
  • (17) The time for complete absorption of these circumscribed subretinal bullae ranged from 8 to 52 weeks (mean 22.7 weeks).
  • (18) Favorable radiographic findings included well-defined, large air spaces without stigmata of diffuse emphysema, serial films showing rapid enlargement of bullae, and expiration films with good thoracic motion and obscuration of lung around bullae.
  • (19) Surgical procedures included lobectomy (n = 317), pneumonectomy (n = 41), wedge resection (n = 82), resections of blebs or bullae (n = 17), thoracotomy and biopsy for unresectable lesion (n = 6), and decortication (n = 5).
  • (20) The latter may have been related to the circumferential distribution of the bullae around each lung.