nonexudative age-related macular degeneration

nonexudative age-related macular degeneration
nonexudative macular degeneration the most common kind of age-related macular degeneration, characterized by gradual wearing out of the cells in the pigmented epithelium of the retina, resulting in a slow, progressive loss of central vision. Called also dry or involutional macular d.

Nonexudative age-related macular degeneration with drusen and geographic atrophy.


Medical dictionary. 2011.

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