The area of the macula comprises only about 2.1 of the retina, and the remaining 97.9 (the peripheral field) remains unaffected by the disease.

Peripheral tests

This is a degeneration of the retina.

Previously it was believed that the mature retina has no regenerative ability.

In almost all cases, some vision remains, mainly peripheral.

Function There are about 1.2 to 1.5 million retinal ganglion cells in the human retina.

The government bonds of peripheral eurozone countries thus became toxic.

The peripheral countries suffer from severe stock and flow imbalances.

Second, wealth transfers to peripheral countries, while controversial, are necessary.

Hypertensive retinopathy is damage to the retina and retinal circulation due to high blood pressure (i.e.

Angiomatosis occurs in 37.2 of patients presenting with VHL disease and usually occurs in the retina.

Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

A Grexit would hit European banks that hold peripheral eurozone countries sovereign bonds.

This year, the G 8ers are talking about interesting but peripheral issues, such as the economic impact of the Internet. Worse, they are talking about important issues, like food security, in a peripheral way.

Diabetic retinopathy ( ˌrɛtnˈɑpəθi ) is retinopathy (damage to the retina) caused by complications of diabetes, which can eventually lead to blindness.

On the following day, 3 August 1993, she was operated on, for a detached retina, at the General University Hospital.

The judge considered that neither the blow from the lemon nor the consequence of a detached retina had been proved.

European citizens particularly in peripheral economies such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain are anxious.

Worse, they are talking about important issues, like food security, in a peripheral way.

Other peripheral countries already have Greek style problems of debt sustainability and eroded competitiveness.

The peripheral countries might just experience enough growth to sustain their ambitious austerity commitments.

Other reform proposals contained in your draft outcome document, Mr. President, would become peripheral.

But it's peripheral activities, like these, that allow people to get together, doing fun things.

The world must get used to a twilight security environment of sudden and peripheral emergencies.

The peripheral countries external deficits are falling rapidly, thus diminishing the need for foreign financing.

All of these developments are now visible in the eurozone, particularly in its peripheral countries.

Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.

The peripheral nature of the NATO Russia Council was clearly not enough and did not work.

This disclosure raises interesting new questions because Dr Khan was peripheral to actual weapons related work.

Nonetheless, the German model does hold some useful lessons for the eurozone s embattled peripheral countries today.

This technology prevents the handling of insecticides at the peripheral (end use) level by non specialist.

51 Days 52 Days Developing retina, nose and fingers The fetus' continual movement in the womb is necessary for muscular and skeletal growth.

That means that courageous structural reforms must still be pursued in the peripheral countries indeed, throughout Europe.

That is why, far from being a disadvantage, her peripheral position is one of her main assets.

Crisis torn peripheral European economies still suffer from unsustainable debt loads and serious productivity and competitiveness problems.

In particular, the Panel finds that Saudi Arabia has overestimated the intensity of damage in peripheral areas.

And of course, the brain adds on a lot of information to what is going on in the signals that come from the retina.

No one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries debt crisis.

No one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries debt crisis.

That suggests that most of America s European export gain was concentrated in the region s so called peripheral economies.

The reforms undertaken in some peripheral countries are much deeper than those undertaken by Germany a decade ago.

On that basis, the Panel reduced the extent of the peripheral areas and the areas damaged by roadways.

As an example, suppose that light in the orange range of wavelengths (approximately 577 nm to 597 nm) enters the eye and strikes the retina.

This is the basis of the famous Cherry red spot seen on examination of the retina on funduscopy of a central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO).

A retinal ganglion cell (RGC) is a type of neuron located near the inner surface (the ganglion cell layer) of the retina of the eye.