Definitions for macula

macula mac·u·la

Spelling: [mak-yuh-luh]
IPA: /ˈmæk yə lə/

Macula is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in macula (aaclmu).

Definitions for macula

noun

  1. a spot or blotch, especially on one's skin; macule.
  2. Ophthalmology. an opaque spot on the cornea. Also called macula lutea, yellow spot. an irregularly oval, yellow-pigmented area on the central retina, containing color-sensitive rods and the central point of sharpest vision.

Origin of macula

1350-1400; Middle English Latin: spot, blemish

Examples for macula

The macula rash was entirely unique so far as I knew, but a sketch greatly helped to fix it on one's memory.

A spot of a different colour, included in a plaga or macula.

In order then to avoid diplopia the macula lutea moves to where the retinal image is formed.

Gibbous: hump-backed; protuberant: said of a macula when it resembles a moon more than half full.

Reniform: kidney-shaped: applied to a macula approximating that shape, found at the end of median cell in many moths.

Confluent: running together; as of two macula when united in one outline.

A roundish dot intermediate in size between an atom and a macula.

"Undique aspersa" and "macula fusca notat medium utriusque lateris" are the printed emendations.

macula: a colored mark larger than a spot; of indeterminate figure.

Word Value for macula
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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