Abstract:We compiled uses of the word “macula” in written English by
searching multiple databases, including the Early English Books Online Text
Creation Partnership, America’s Historical Newspapers, the Gale Cengage
Collections, and others. “Macula” has been used: as a non-medical
“spot” or “stain”, literal or figurative, including
in astronomy and in Shakespeare; as a medical skin lesion, occasionally with a
following descriptive adjective, such as a color (macula alba); as a corneal
lesion, including the earliest id… Show more
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