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macular degeneration

retinal degeneration characterized by gradual deterioration of light-sensing cells in the tissues at the back of the eye
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macular degeneration
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macular degeneration

Summary

macular degeneration is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,002 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • macular degeneration's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • macular degeneration is a type of retinal degeneration[4].
  • macular degeneration is a type of maculopathy[5].
  • macular degeneration is a type of blindness[6].
  • macular degeneration's Commons category is recorded as Macular degeneration[7].
  • macular degeneration's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C123330[8].
  • macular degeneration's health specialty is recorded as ophthalmology[9].
  • macular degeneration's hashtag is recorded as macular-degeneration[10].
  • macular degeneration's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_4448[11].
  • macular degeneration's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:4448[12].
  • macular degeneration's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[13].

Why It Matters

macular degeneration ranks in the top 7% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,002 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Judi Dench ophthalmology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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