Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychophysics, a form of red-green colorblindness; the so-called green-blindness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
color blindness . Involves a defect in distinguishing between red and green.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The regular color blindness tests (Ishikawa plates) test primarily for red-green (protanopia and deuteranopia), and not for tritanopia.
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I dunno .. if you look at the protanopia and deuteranopia pics on the wiki page for
Slashdot: Science 2010
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I was born with the most common type, deuteranopia, a genetic mutation that affects the ability of the green-sensitive cones in my eyes to absorb light.
This is what it looks like to be colorblind Andy Baio 2023
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I was born with the most common type, deuteranopia, a genetic mutation that affects the ability of the green-sensitive cones in my eyes to absorb light.
This is what it looks like to be colorblind Andy Baio 2023
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