(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.
Bully
Definition:
(n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
(n.) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
(a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
(v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
(v. i.) To act as a bully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(4) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
(5) One hundred days from Rio, Britain’s national cycling team has been thrown into chaos following the sudden resignation of its head, technical director Shane Sutton , as allegations of bullying and discrimination against women and Paralympians accumulated on Wednesday.
(6) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(7) How, we might ask, can homophobic bullying be tackled when implicitly sanctioned by the school’s own literature?
(8) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(9) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(10) "If I thought he was a bully or if I thought he was homophobic then I would take him off," Cooper told MediaGuardian's Radio Reborn conference in central London.
(11) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(12) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(13) More like this: • Five reasons why the Ref is not fit for purpose • Struggle for top research grades fuels bullying among university staf f • Measuring impact: how Australia and the UK are tackling research assessment Enter the Guardian university awards 2015 and join the higher education network for more comment, analysis and job opportunities, direct to your inbox.
(14) In 2007 a fresh-faced MP spent two days at the home of a Muslim family in Birmingham and then wrote boldly of how it wasn’t possible to “bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them”; “you can’t even start to talk about a truly integrated society while people are suffering racist … abuse … on a daily basis”.
(15) "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
(16) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(17) The report detailed several instances of bullying by pupils.
(18) The assessment of bullying in schools comes after police figures indicated that young people were the victims of 10% of faith hate crime and 8% of race hate crime between 16 June and 7 July.
(19) Earlier Alexander, the most senior Scottish MP in the UK cabinet, rejected claims that ministers in London were bullying Scotland into rejecting independence.
(20) Work on The Maze Runner came about, he says, because his director watched Son of Rambow “and knew I had some bully-ish qualities in my acting locker”.