macula
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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
Dry AMD gradually destroys the light-sensitive cells of the macula, eroding central vision over time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025
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
In the retina the rods are more numerous than the cones, while the macula lutea only appears in the Primates in connexion with binocular vision.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 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
