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Abstract
Degenerative changes in the RETINA usually of older adults which results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the MACULA LUTEA) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in dry and wet forms.
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- Macular Dystrophy
- Maculopathy
- Degeneration, Macular
- Dystrophy, Macular
- Macular Degenerations
- Macular Dystrophies
- Maculopathies
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Age-Related Maculopathies
- Age-Related Maculopathy
- Macular Degeneration, Age-Related
- Maculopathies, Age-Related
- Maculopathy, Age-Related
- Age Related Macular Degeneration
- Age Related Maculopathies
- Age Related Maculopathy
- Age-Related Macular Degenerations
- Macular Degeneration, Age Related
- Maculopathy, Age Related
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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History Note
79(75); was see under RETINAL DEGENERATION 1970-78
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- Retinal Degeneration (1970-1978)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Macular Degeneration. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008268. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008268
- Macular Degeneration. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macular_degeneration
- Macular Degeneration. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27429789