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Yellow spot

noun

Any of several fungous or viral diseases characterized by yellow spotting on the leaves.

A small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision. Synonyms: macula, macula lutea, macular area.

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"Yellow spot" Quotes from Famous Books

... ledge with a good deal of skin peeled from various parts of my person. The first object my eye fell upon as I hoisted myself above the four-foot shelf was a dull, yellow spot on the gray rock, near enough so that I could lean forward and touch it with my fingers. A two-inch circle of the real thing—I'd seen enough gold in the raw to know it without any acid test—hammered into the coarse sandstone. I pried it up with the blade of my knife and looked it ...

— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... more pertinent is the fact that the effects of retinal fatigue are producible by dream-images. The physiologist Gruithuisen had a dream, in which the principal feature was a violet flame, and which left behind it, after waking, for an appreciable duration, a complementary image of a yellow spot.[84] ...

— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully

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