macul-, maculat- +
(Latin: spot, mark, stain, blot, blemish, mesh)
The original meaning of macula seems to have been, "a soiled spot, a spot to be cleaned".
maculate(d): Spotted, as with macules.
Actitis macularia
1. Spotted sandpiper or a shorebird with a long slender beak that it uses to catch insects, worms, and soft mollusks in sand and mud.
2. Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and a piping call.
immaculate
1. Impeccably clean; spotless.
2. Free from stain or blemish; pure.
3. Free from fault or error; such as, an immaculate record.
4. Having no markings.
lepra maculosa
A form of lepra with pigmented cutaneous areas.
macula, plural; maculae, singular
A small spot or colored area.
macula cerulea, blue spot
A bluish stain on the skin caused by the bites of fleas or lice; especially, pediculosis pubis (infestation of the pubic hair), causing pruitus (itching that provokes a desire to scratch the skin) and maculae ceruleae.
maculae ceruleae
Small grayish blue stainlike, nonpruritic macules located chiefly on the chest, abdomen, thighs, and upper arms in pediculosis pubis, which are especially noticeable in light-skinned individuals.
They are probably due to altered blood pigments in infested individuals, or to an excretion product in the louse's saliva that converts bilirubin (a reddish-yellow bile pigment) to biliverdin (a green pigment occurring in bile).
macular degeneration
Degeneration of the macular area of the retina of the eye, an area important in the visualization of fine details. This condition, the leading cause of visual impairment in persons over age 50, can lead to loss of central vision, making it difficult to read or do fine work, such as threading a needle.
macula retinae
An oval area of the sensory retina, three by five mm, temporal to the optic disk corresponding to the posterior pole of the eye; at its center is the central fovea (small cup-shaped depression or pit), which contains only retinal cones (light-sensitive cell types).
macule
Discolored spot or patch on the skin, neither elevated nor depressed, of various colors, sizes, and shapes.
maculmancy
Divination with stains or anything made impure; with spots.
maculopapular
An eruption consisting of both macules and papules.
maculopathy
Retinal pathology involving the macula of the eye.
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