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To: martin_fierro
mac·u·la
n. pl. mac·u·lae (-l) or mac·u·las

1. also mac·ule (-yl) A discolored spot or area on the skin that is not elevated above the surface and is characteristic of certain conditions, such as smallpox, purpura, or roseola. 2. a. An opaque spot on the cornea.
b. The macula lutea.

Old people sometimes get an eye disease called "macular degeneration."

I think what this idiot Banfield was trying to say was "on a macro level."
14 posted on 04/29/2003 8:54:19 AM PDT by bourbon (The carrot can not be used to the exclusion of the stick.)
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To: bourbon
I think what this idiot Banfield was trying to say was "on a macro level."

Perhaps, but there's something deliciously Freudian about her using 'macular'instead.

18 posted on 04/29/2003 9:23:39 AM PDT by Slainte
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