macular edema

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   an eye disease caused by a swelling of the macula resulting from leakage and accumulation of fluid

   Broadereye disease

Questions about macular edema

What does macular edema mean?

macular edema means "an eye disease caused by a swelling of the macula resulting from leakage and accumulation of fluid".

Is macular edema a common word?

macular edema 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.