TRITANOPIA

tritanopia, blue-blindness

(noun) rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tritanopia (countable and uncountable, plural tritanopias)

A form of color blindness in which the retina is deficient in or lacks cone cells containing opsins that respond to the color blue, resulting in an inability to distinguish blue from green.

Hypernyms

• (form of color blindness): color blindness, blue-yellow color blindness

Anagrams

• patriation

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