MACULAR DEGENERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does macular degeneration mean? 

• MACULAR DEGENERATION (noun)
  The noun MACULAR DEGENERATION has 1 sense:

1. eye disease caused by degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea and results in blurred vision; can cause blindness

  Familiarity information: MACULAR DEGENERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACULAR DEGENERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eye disease caused by degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea and results in blurred vision; can cause blindness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("macular degeneration" is a kind of...):

degeneration; devolution (the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality)

eye disease (any disease of the eye)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "macular degeneration"):

age-related macular degeneration; AMD (macular degeneration that is age-related)

 Context examples 

Fundoscopy may be used to check for eye problems, such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, eye cancer, optic nerve problems, or eye injury.

(Fundoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

The iPS cells are programmed to become retinal pigment epithelial cells, the type of cell that dies early in the geographic atrophy stage of macular degeneration.

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Funduscopy may be used to check for eye problems, such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, eye cancer, optic nerve problems, or eye injury.

(Funduscopy, NCI Dictionary)

Ophthalmoscopy may be used to check for eye problems, such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, eye cancer, optic nerve problems, or eye injury.

(Ophthalmoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

Also called age-related macular degeneration, AMD, and macular degeneration.

(ARMD, NCI Dictionary)

Mutation of the gene is associated with both amyloidosis type 6 and age-related macular degeneration type 11.

(CST3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Macular degeneration characterized by edema and cystic spaces which may lead to a macular depression or hole.

(Cystoid Macular Edema, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Variations in the promoter of the gene are associated with age-related macular degeneration type 7.

(HTRA1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called age-related macular degeneration, ARMD, and macular degeneration.

(AMD, NCI Dictionary)

Also called AMD, ARMD, and macular degeneration.

(Age-related macular degeneration, NCI Dictionary)