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circumfoveal

circumfoveal adjective: around the fovea.

Adjective

circumfoveal (not comparable)

  1. Around the fovea
    • The concentration of more central tumors progressed by age quartiles in a roughly circumfoveal trajectory from superotemporal to inferotemporal to inferonasal to nasal meridian, with an increasing average eccentricity.2015 August 1, “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Tumor Occurrence in Children with Intraocular Retinoblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of circumfoveal

From circum- + foveal.

Questions about circumfoveal

What does circumfoveal mean?
Circumfoveal means around the fovea.
What part of speech is circumfoveal?
Circumfoveal is an adjective.

Words near circumfoveal in the dictionary

  1. circumfluences
  2. circumfluent
  3. circumfluous
  4. circumforanean
  5. circumforaneous
  6. circumfoveal
  7. circumfulgent
  8. circumfuse
  9. circumfused
  10. circumfuses
  11. circumfusing

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