Macular degeneration, often age related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition that usually affects older adults and results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina.

Exposure to sunlight, especially blue light Evidence is conflicting as to whether exposure to sunlight contributes to the development of macular degeneration.

And she told me the nurses hadn't mentioned this that she was blind, that she had been completely blind from macular degeneration for five years.

Today, four decades later, such substances have been used to treat more than 10 million people with neovascular diseases such as macular degeneration and many different forms of cancer.

and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.

So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration? What happens is is that, the front end cells die, the photoreceptors die, and over time, all the cells and the circuits that are connected to them, they die too.

The only randomized clinical trial to demonstrate a benefit for lutein in macular degeneration was a small study, in which the authors concluded that visual function is improved with lutein alone or lutein together with other nutrients and also that more study was needed.

This is a degeneration of the retina.

That's wet.

That is wet.

Caution wet floor

The ground seems wet.

Cats dislike being wet.

She has wet hair.

Tom got soaking wet.

Leadership degeneration accelerates as the autocratic regime ages and grows more bureaucratic.

Mennad's pillow is soaking wet.

Others include wet floor signs.

Wet fish trawlers are trawlers where the fish is kept in the hold in a fresh wet condition.

Studies also have focused on the role of glutamate in motor neuron degeneration.

I got wet to the skin.

I got wet to the skin.

Even macular edema, which may cause vision loss more rapidly, may not have any warning signs for some time.

And that was fine. We got wet. No problem.

Verily We created man from a product of wet earth

Verily We created man from a product of wet earth

Among many of the systemic flaws of autocracy, degeneration at the top, epitomized by ever weaker leaders, is progressive and incurable.

Divided along its length by a mountain range, the isthmus's weather is generally wet on the Atlantic (Caribbean) side but has a clearer division into wet and dry seasons on the Pacific side.

A wet gas is any gas with a small amount of liquid present.

In fact, the consequences of leadership degeneration are easy to see faltering economic dynamism and growth, rising social tensions, and loss of government credibility.

Some of the people attending are partially blind, while others have suffered from visual degeneration at an early age, or they were born blind.

They pad along barefooted, with the mud sucking at their heels in the wet parts.

Four major climatic groupings predominate in India tropical wet, tropical dry, subtropical humid, and montane.

Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions.

Western European Time (WET, ) is a time zone covering parts of western and northwestern Europe.

Too many a time do you see workers beg and cry themselves wet over salaries unpaid.

She also is now getting her toes wet in covering Saudi Arabia at Global Voices Online.

TNT neither absorbs nor dissolves in water, which allows it to be used effectively in wet environments.

The Government attributes the reduction to the fact that the iron ore was in the wet state. However there should have been no deductions regardless of whether the ore was wet because the sale was on an as is where is basis.

The most lethal strain of leadership degeneration is escalating predation among the ruling elites. The most visible symptom is corruption, but the cause is intrinsic to autocratic rule.

Macrovesicular is the more common form of fatty degeneration, and may be caused by oversupply of lipids due to obesity, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), insulin resistance, or alcoholism.

And most of those who do live in the flood areas would never even get their feet wet.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Macular edema occurs when fluid and protein deposits collect on or under the macula of the eye (a yellow central area of the retina) and causes it to thicken and swell (edema).