The gaze is into the camera, so in each picture the macula is in the center of the image, and the optic disk is located towards the nose. The macula or macula lutea (from Latin macula, spot + lutea, yellow) is an oval-shaped pigmented area near the center of the retina of the human eye. It has a diameter of around 5.5 mm (0.22 in). The macula is subdivided into the umbo, foveola, foveal avascular zone (FAZ), fovea, parafovea, and perifovea areas.