SPOTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spots mean? 

• SPOTS (noun)
  The noun SPOTS has 1 sense:

1. spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

  Familiarity information: SPOTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

floater; musca volitans; muscae volitantes; spots

Context example:

floaters seem to drift through the field of vision

Hypernyms ("spots" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

 Context examples 

Finally, validated positive spots on the microarray can predict which DNA sequences interact with the protein of interest.

(ChIP-On-Chip, NCI Thesaurus)

The region with the brightest spots is in a crater about 55 miles (90 kilometers) across.

(Bright Spots Shine in Newest Dawn Ceres Images, NASA)

People with Fanconi anemia may have a small skeleton and brown spots on the skin.

(Fanconi anemia, NCI Dictionary)

At least eight spots can be seen next to the largest bright area, which scientists think is approximately 6 miles (9 kilometers) wide.

(Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images, NASA)

The first group of bright spots contains the most reflective material on Ceres, which is found on crater floors.

(Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity, NASA)

Neutrophils are born in bone marrow and carry chemicals in hundreds of densely filled packets called granules, which look like dark spots under a microscope.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

They found that all expanding rimmed spots seen on the scans had the telltale features of chronic active lesions when examined under a microscope.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

But, when they tuned the scanner differently, the blood vessels disappeared, and the researchers saw that dura also contained smaller but almost equally bright spots and lines which they suspected were lymph vessels.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)

ChemCam found iron, nickel and phosphorus, plus lesser ingredients, in concentrations still being determined through analysis of the spectrum of light produced from dozens of laser pulses at nine spots on the object.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite, NASA)

Since they were located right over the dune fields around Titan's equator, the only remaining explanation was that the spots were actually clouds of dust raised from the dunes.

(Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time, NASA)