PROTANOPIA

protanopia, red-blindness

(noun) dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

protanopia (usually uncountable, plural protanopias)

(pathology) A form of color blindness. Involves a defect in distinguishing between red and green.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

27 April 2025

APPROXIMATE

(adjective) not quite exact or correct; “the approximate time was 10 o’clock”; “a rough guess”; “a ballpark estimate”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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