macula

n., pl., -lae (-lē'), or -las.

1. also mac·ule (-yūl') A discolored spot or area on the skin that is not elevated above the surface and is characteristic of certain conditions, such as smallpox, purpura, or roseola.
2. 1. An opaque spot on the cornea.
   2. The macula lutea.

[Middle English, from Latin.]

macular mac'u·lar adj.

Pl. maculae [L.]
1. a stain, spot, or thickening;
2. an area distinguishable by color or otherwise from its surroundings. Often used alone to refer to the macula retinae.
3. a macule: a discolored spot on the skin that is not raised above the surface.
4. a corneal scar that can be seen without special optical aids; presenting as a gray spot intermediate between a nebula and a leukoma.
5. macula lutea.

• m. acusticae — terminations of the vestibulocochlear nerve in the utricle and saccule.
• m. adherens — see desmosome.
• m. atrophica — a white atrophic patch on the skin.
• m. corneae — a circumscribed opacity of the cornea.
• m. cribrosa — a perforated spot or area; one of three perforated areas (inferior, medial and superior) in the wall of the vestibule of the ear through which branches of the vestibulocochlear nerve pass to the saccule, utricle and semicircular canals.
• m. densa — a zone of heavily nucleated cells in the distal renal tubule.
• m. folliculi — the point on the surface of a vesicular ovarian follicle where rupture occurs; follicular stigma.
• m. germinativa — germinal area; the part of the conceptus where the embryo is formed.
• inner ear m. — sensory receptor areas in the walls of the utriculus and sacculus which monitor the position of the head relative to gravity; see also macula sacculi, macula utriculi (below).
• m. lutea — an irregular yellowish depression on the retina, lateral to and slightly below the optic disk. Called also macula retinae.
• m. retinae — see macula lutea (above).
• m. sacculi — a thickening on the wall of the saccule where the epithelium contains hair cells that receive and transmit vestibular impulses.
• m. utriculi — a thickening in the wall of the utricle where the epithelium contains hair cells that are stimulated by linear acceleration and deceleration and by gravity.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - plet på huden, solplet

Nederlands (Dutch)
vlek, huidvlek, gele vlek (in oog), zonnevlek

Français (French)
n. - (Méd) macula

Deutsch (German)
n. - Fleck, gelber Fleck

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κηλίδα

Italiano (Italian)
macula, macchia (spec. del sole)

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mácula (f)

Русский (Russian)
пятно (на солнце)

Español (Spanish)
n. - mácula, mancha

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - macula, (hud)fläck, solfläck

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
斑点, 黑点, 污点

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 斑點, 黑點, 污點

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 반점, 기미, 멍, 흑점

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - あざ, 黒点

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بقعه داكنه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בהרת, איזור ברשתית העין, כתם-שמש‬

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