Term: macular degeneration: eye disease caused by degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea and results in blurred vision; can cause blindness
Candidate hypernym: eye disease: any disease of the eye → 1
Candidate hypernym: curacao: flavored with sour orange peel → 0
Candidate hypernym: bookkeeper: someone who records the transactions of a business → 0
Candidate hypernym: sheller: a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) → 0
Candidate hypernym: deoxyadenosine: a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of adenosine and deoxyribose → 0
Candidate hypernym: grudge: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation → 0
Candidate hypernym: population control: control over the growth of population; a government program → 0
Candidate hypernym: transduction: the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form → 0
Candidate hypernym: encephalitis: inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) → 0
Candidate hypernym: batch: a collection of things or persons to be handled together → 0
Candidate hypernym: tailorbird: tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest → 0