extramacular

English

Etymology

extra- +‎ macular

Adjective

extramacular (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the macula.
    • 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 Medicine‎, volume 7, DOI:10.1186/s13073-015-0183-x:
      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.
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