How to Use macula in a Sentence

macula

noun

• This occurs when the macula, a part of the retina, is damaged.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2024
• The back of the eye, called the retina, has a delicate central area known as the macula.
  — Time, 26 Aug. 2019
• This condition leads to a loss of sharp vision in the center of the retina (the macula).
  — Joe, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
• In this patient, the macula was normal on the right but appeared swollen and discolored on the left.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• When this happens, the eye tries to grow new blood vessels that are prone to leaking or bleeding into the macula.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 28 Mar. 2025
• When bleeding happens in the macula, our ability to see in detail can be reduced or lost.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
• The antioxidants build up in the macula, which is the part of your eye that controls sharp, central vision.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 12 Nov. 2025
• At its center is the macula, the part of the eye responsible for sharp, central vision.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2025
• The smear across his macula was the injury and inflammation caused by the infection.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
• The macula is central to reading, driving and seeing fine details.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
• Located on the opposite side of the lens, the macula includes the region of sharpest vision, the fovea.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• But by tamping down growth signals, the procedure can protect the macula, which is in the central retina.
  — Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
• The macula is responsible for the straight-ahead vision used for things like reading, driving, and seeing faces.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Nov. 2018
• This happens because the drug can build up in the macula and other parts of the eye, eventually causing blindness.
  — Camela Thompson, STAT, 20 May 2020
• These pigments in the eye's macula are essential for maintaining healthy vision.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 June 2023
• The development of blind spots or a central gray, black, or blurry area can indicate damage to the macula.
  — Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 3 Apr. 2025
• These carotenoids specifically accumulate in a part of the retina called the macula.
  — Jillian Kubala, Health, 31 Oct. 2024
• The disease causes weakening of the macula, which is the small area at the center of the retina, which is specialized for fine vision.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The condition develops when fluid builds up in the macula — the central portion of the retina at the back of the eye, where vision is sharpest.
  — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2026
• The macula, part of the retina needed for sharp vision, may become distorted, causing blurry sight.
  — Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
• Another region on the retina, called the macula, is where most of the visual receptors are located.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• This image shows a mosaic of cells within the utricular macula—the thin membrane within the ear that helps maintain balance.
  — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
• In the other form, abnormal blood vessels growing behind the retina damage the macula by leaking blood into it.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
• The membrane can form over the macula, a region near the center of the retina that sharply focuses images, a crucial process for reading or seeing fine detail.
  — Christopher Wanjek, NBC News, 9 May 2017
• The membrane can form over the macula , a region near the center of the retina that sharply focuses images, a crucial process for reading or seeing fine detail.
  — Christopher Wanjek, Fox News, 10 May 2017
• There is no cure for AMD, which is driven by changes in a part of the retina called the macula and caused by inflammation and a build-up of waste.
  — David Cox, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
• This type is caused by abnormal blood vessels that leak fluid and/or blood into the center part of the retina called the macula, Eichenbaum explains.
  — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• Second, in the macula, where most of the seeing takes place, the normally darker red of the vision center was obscured by a smear of yellow-gray material.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
• Other carotenoids are found in our kidneys, livers skin, immune system, fat cells and so on, but lutein and zeaxanthin are the main carotenoids in our macula (the vision center of the eye) and brain.
  — Daphne Miller, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
• This treatment is more likely to be used when blood vessel growth is limited to a compact area in the eye, away from the center of the macula, that can be easily targeted with the laser.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024