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These include a specialized sensory structure known as the macula neglecta, which may help them detect motion and vibrations generated as sound travels through water.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

The disease affects the macula, a small area at the center of the retina that is essential for sharp, detailed vision.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2026

According to the RNIB, Stargardt disease is an inherited eye condition that affects the macula, the central part of the retina, and causes a reduction in vision there.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 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

Coste in 1834, and its independent observation by Wharton Jones in 1835; and fourth, the observation in the same year by Rudolph Wagner of the germinal macula or nucleus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Figure 14.11 Linear Acceleration Coding by Maculae The maculae are specialized for sensing linear acceleration, such as when gravity acts on the tilting head, or if the head starts moving in a straight line.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Many nevertheless possess stereoscopic vision which they get by virtue of the fact that they have two maculae ... in each eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

These become fused into crimson, slightly raised maculae, which in severe cases become further fused into red thickened patches, in which the papules can still be felt and sometimes seen.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

These are the cerebral maculae of Trousseau; and they indicate, as Dr. Browne remarks, a highly modified condition of the cutaneous vascular system.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin