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extramacular

extramacular adjective: outside of the macula.

Adjective

extramacular (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the macula.
    • In the RPE-choroid there was evidence of wound response in both macular and extramacular regions, whereas in the retina the region of response was limited to the macula, as is the primary visual loss.2015 June 19, Monte J. Radeke et al., “Restoration of mesenchymal retinal pigmented epithelial cells by TGFβ pathway inhibitors: implications for age-related macular degeneration”, in Genome...

Origin of extramacular

From extra- + macular.

Questions about extramacular

What does extramacular mean?
Extramacular means outside of the macula.
What part of speech is extramacular?
Extramacular is an adjective.

Words near extramacular in the dictionary

  1. extraluminally
  2. extralymphatic
  3. extralymphoid
  4. extralysosomal
  5. extramacula
  6. extramacular
  7. extramammary
  8. extramammary Paget disease
  9. extramammary Paget's disease
  10. extramarginal
  11. extramarital

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