macula lutea

English

Etymology

From Latin macula (“stain, blemish”) + lūtea (“saffron yellow”).

Noun

macula lutea (plural maculae luteae)

1. (anatomy) macula (yellow spot in the human eye)

References

• “macula lutea”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.