How to Use macula in a Sentence

macula

noun
Definition of maculanext
  • Your macula is the part of the retina at the back of your eye that’s responsible for central (as opposed to peripheral) vision, deciphering color, and picking up the fine details.
    — Meghan Rabbitt, Good Housekeeping, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The back of the eye, called the retina, has a delicate central area known as the macula.
    — Time, 26 Aug. 2019
  • This condition leads to a loss of sharp vision in the center of the retina (the macula).
    — Joe, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • In this patient, the macula was normal on the right but appeared swollen and discolored on the left.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Located on the opposite side of the lens, the macula includes the region of sharpest vision, the fovea.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • The smear across his macula was the injury and inflammation caused by the infection.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The disease causes weakening of the macula, which is the small area at the center of the retina, which is specialized for fine vision.
    — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • This happens because the drug can build up in the macula and other parts of the eye, eventually causing blindness.
    — Camela Thompson, STAT, 20 May 2020
  • The macula is responsible for the straight-ahead vision used for things like reading, driving, and seeing faces.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Nov. 2018
  • Other carotenoids are found in our kidneys, livers skin, immune system, fat cells and so on, but lutein and zeaxanthin are the main carotenoids in our macula (the vision center of the eye) and brain.
    — Daphne Miller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The macula is central to reading, driving and seeing fine details.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
  • This type is caused by abnormal blood vessels that leak fluid and/or blood into the center part of the retina called the macula, Eichenbaum explains.
    — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The membrane can form over the macula, a region near the center of the retina that sharply focuses images, a crucial process for reading or seeing fine detail.
    — Christopher Wanjek, NBC News, 9 May 2017
  • The membrane can form over the macula , a region near the center of the retina that sharply focuses images, a crucial process for reading or seeing fine detail.
    — Christopher Wanjek, Fox News, 10 May 2017
  • Second, in the macula, where most of the seeing takes place, the normally darker red of the vision center was obscured by a smear of yellow-gray material.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • Another region on the retina, called the macula, is where most of the visual receptors are located.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • This image shows a mosaic of cells within the utricular macula—the thin membrane within the ear that helps maintain balance.
    — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
  • The injections stanch the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels that grow under the macula region of the retina, which is responsible for clear central vision.
    — Ron Winslow, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
  • But beneath that, Eliott could see another worrisome finding — under the very center of the macula was a small cluster of abnormal blood vessels.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The macula can be sensitive to blue light, which is emitted from electronic devices such as cellphones, computer monitors and TVs.
    — Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • Byproducts of the vitamin accumulate on the macula, in the back of the eye, eventually resulting in a loss of central vision, as if perpetually looking at the world through an eclipse.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Bleeding and swelling of the macula results in macular edema and eventually, maculopathy, while starvation of the retina leads to a chain-reaction of negative events that eventually results in diabetic retinopathy.
    — Jewish Journal, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Dry macular degeneration is a condition in which layers of the macula get progressively thinner and atrophy, according to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation.
    — Ashton Nichols, Dallas News, 3 June 2020

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