Thesaurus / macula
other words for macula
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- blot
- blotch
- bruise
- discoloration
- freckle
- imperfection
- pimple
- scar
- smudge
- snag
- stain
- stigma
- wart
- birthmark
- blackhead
- blister
- bloom
- blur
- brand
- bug
- catch
- chip
- cicatrix
- defacement
- defect
- deformity
- dent
- disfigurement
- disgrace
- dishonor
- eyesore
- fault
- hickey
- impurity
- lentigo
- lump
- maculation
- mark
- mole
- nevus
- nodule
- patch
- pock
- pockmark
- second
- sight
- speck
- speckle
- spot
- taint
- tarnish
- vice
- whitehead
- zit
- beauty spot
- blot on the landscape
opposites of macula
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In order then to avoid diplopia the macula lutea moves to where the retinal image is formed.
SCHWEIGGER ON SQUINTC. SCHWEIGGER
The macula rash was entirely unique so far as I knew, but a sketch greatly helped to fix it on one's memory.
A LABRADOR DOCTORWILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL
Mail comes from the Latin macula, the mesh of a net; and the first coats of mail were made of rings or a kind of metal network.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, VOL. 2 (OF 2)JOHN MILLER DOW MEIKLEJOHN
Confluent: running together; as of two macula when united in one outline.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGYJOHN. B. SMITH
"Undique aspersa" and "Macula fusca notat medium utriusque lateris" are the printed emendations.
Labium interius depressum, longitudine pictum macula ferruginea.
Mackerel comes from macarellus and originally the Latin macula—spotted, from the dark spots on the body.
THE LOG OF THE SUNWILLIAM BEEBE
Female alis longioribus, maculis albis triseriatis alarum anticarum majoribus, nulla macula diaphana fenestrata ad costam.
A spot of a different colour, included in a plaga or macula.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY: VOL. IV (OF 4)WILLIAM KIRBY
Gibbous: hump-backed; protuberant: said of a macula when it resembles a moon more than half full.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGYJOHN. B. SMITH
WORDS RELATED TO MACULA
- beauty spot
- birthmark
- blackhead
- blister
- bloom
- blot
- blot on the landscape
- blotch
- blur
- brand
- bruise
- bug
- catch
- chip
- cicatrix
- defacement
- defect
- deformity
- dent
- discoloration
- disfigurement
- disgrace
- dishonor
- eyesore
- fault
- freckle
- hickey
- imperfection
- impurity
- lentigo
- lump
- macula
- maculation
- mark
- mole
- nevus
- nodule
- patch
- pimple
- pock
- pockmark
- scar
- second
- sight
- smudge
- snag
- speck
- speckle
- spot
- stain
- stigma
- taint
- tarnish
- vice
- wart
- whitehead
- zit
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.