No -- the word macular, the word degeneration, the word eye wasn't even there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2009] Reference

The macular is the central and most sensitive section of the retina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference

There's this thing called macular degeneration where the eye becomes less efficient with age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barking Moonbat Early Warning System] Reference

McKinney suffered from a vision problem known as macular degeneration-a blind spot in someone's central vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Church Marketing Sucks] Reference

One of the common diseases in the eye is abnormal blood vessels that grow in the back of the eye called macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2009] Reference

Edgewater resident Betty Steinke, 77, was recently forced to give up her driver's license because of the severe visual impairment known as macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Children and young people can also suffer from an inherited form of macular degeneration called macular dystrophy, which can sometimes affect several members from the same family.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

"You have the good kind of macular degeneration," my ophthalmologist says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public officials have an obligation to do more for people with vision loss] Reference

The primary risk factor for diseases such as macular degeneration, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's is age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference

It's also used to treat patients with eye conditions such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This area is damaged in more common retinal conditions such as macular degeneration and can be damaged by diabetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Sometimes colour blindness occurs because of diseases such as macular degeneration or from side effects of medicines.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

These signals can reveal the early signs of several diseases such as macular degeneration and certain types of cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

They also told her that they are looking for people for trial testing a new medication for the dry kind of macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Daisy Log] Reference

One is macular degeneration, which causes blindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An RNA Remedy] Reference

No other treatment is approved for macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [An RNA Remedy] Reference

The lesion encroaches upon and implicates the macular region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

An eye check revealed that he was slowly going blind from macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MAN OF SUBSTANCE] Reference

This is the heart-wrenching reality of severe age-related macular degeneration (AMD).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fading Of The Light] Reference

But if you have macular degeneration, you get those black spots sort of in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2009] Reference

The FDA has approved it for people with macular degeneration - a disease that affects millions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiny Eye Telescope Brings Back A World Of Sight] Reference

In 2006, a similar Genentech drug, ranibizumab (Lucentis), was approved for macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off label drugs: Why you have to question your doctor] Reference

About 85-90 percent of the patients that have this have the dry form of this macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2004] Reference

British scientists are going to use embryonic stem cells in an attempt to reduce macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2007] Reference

The label also recommends eye examinations to spot macular edema, a side effect reported in some patients.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDA Approves Drug For Multiple Sclerosis] Reference

CUTHILL: Clearly, so does Marla, diagnosed at age 9 with Stargart's disease, a form of macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2003] Reference

People who consumed the highest amounts of trans fats were 1.76 times more likely to get macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2009] Reference

Theoretically, for a person suffering from macular degeneration, it's better to look up or to the side to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2009] Reference

Take macular degeneration: for people who suffer from this common cause of blindness, the future is already here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine: The Future Arrives Early] Reference

He had macular degeneration, too, worse than mine, and made his living driving a large truck from New York to Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Hand Gestures Didn't Mean 'Hello'] Reference

You have one serving of fish per week, a 31 percent decreased risk of developing this problem of macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2009] Reference

And get those eye checkups; especially if you have a family history of macular degeneration, make sure you do that -- Bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2004] Reference

I was born with ordinary vision but began to experience significant vision loss from macular degeneration when I was about nine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Gibbons: People Who Are Blind Must Have Visions of Greatness] Reference

Doctors are now testing the procedure on everything from skin and breast cancer to macular degeneration, a progressive eye disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let There Be Light] Reference

In diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, capillaries grow unchecked in the eye; thalidomide might prevent both.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 'Bad' Drug May Turn Out To Do Good] Reference

What they also found, incidentally, 81 milligrams of Aspirin a day as well reduced the chance of the wet form of the macular degeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2004] Reference

It focused on this area in the back of the eye and sometimes can deteriorate and break down the delicate macular tissue that surrounds it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2009] Reference