DRUSEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drusen mean? 

• DRUSEN (noun)
  The noun DRUSEN has 1 sense:

1. (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina

  Familiarity information: DRUSEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUSEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("drusen" is a kind of...):

eye disease (any disease of the eye)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

At baseline, participants had no AMD, intermediate AMD (large deposits known as drusen in the retina of both eyes), or late-stage AMD in one eye.

(No evidence that calcium increases risk of age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Mutation of the gene is associated with basal laminar drusen, complement factor H deficiency, hemolytic uremic syndrome atypical type 1, and age-related macular degeneration type 4.

(CFH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)