macula
Example Sentences
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Dry AMD gradually destroys the light-sensitive cells of the macula, eroding central vision over time.
From Science Daily • Oct. 20, 2025
As chair of her local macula support group, she said many in her position share the same concerns.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
Excessive vascular growth damages the macula, the part of the eye that translates light into image signals.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
But mouse retinas lack the macula, a key region found in human eyes that picks out fine details, so they are not an ideal model.
From Scientific American • Aug. 8, 2022
L. capite rubro, antennis nigris, thorace flavo-marginato antice lineis alba nigraque transverse notato, scutello nigro, elytris flavis macula media parteque apicali membranacea nigris, corpore subtus fulvo lateribus albo-lineatis pedibus nigro-brunneis.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
