cystoid maculopathy
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n.
Cystic degeneration of the central retina; it may occur after cataract extraction, in senile macular degeneration, and in other retinal abnormalities.
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Words nearby cystoid maculopathy
cystofibroma, cystogenous, cystogram, cystography, cystoid, cystoid maculopathy, cystolith, cystolithectomy, cystolithiasis, cystolithic, cystolithotomy
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How to use cystoid maculopathy in a sentence
(ii) To close the wound made by the excision of a cystoid scar.
In the latter instance it is very liable to carry iris into the wound, and a cystoid cicatrix results.
The cystoid reaches its climax, but there appear now two higher types of echinoderms,—the crinoid and the starfish.
The Elements of Geology|William Harmon Norton