age-related macular degeneration

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   macular degeneration that is age-related

   SynonymsAMD

   Broadermacular degeneration

Questions about age-related macular degeneration

What does age-related macular degeneration mean?

age-related macular degeneration means "macular degeneration that is age-related".

What is another word for age-related macular degeneration?

Close synonyms include AMD. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is age-related macular degeneration a common word?

age-related macular degeneration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.