macula lutea

English

Etymology

From Latin macula (“stain, blemish”) + lūtea (“saffron yellow”).

Noun

macula lutea (plural maculae luteae)

(anatomy) macula (yellow spot in the human eye)

References

“macula lutea”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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