Definitions for maculas

maculas mac·u·la

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

Maculas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in maculas (aaclmsu).

Definitions for maculas

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 maculas

1350-1400; Middle English Latin: spot, blemish

Examples for maculas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for maculas
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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