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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, ophthalmology, sciences
Examples
- 1997, M. Alpern, K. Kitahara, D. H. Krantz, 9: Perception of Colour in Unilateral Tritanopia, Alex Byrne, David R. Hilbert (editors), Readings on Color, Volume 2: The Science of Color, page 231, M. Alpern et. al 1983 gives results of colour matching and colour discrimination for each eye separately of a subject who acquired tritanopia in his left eye while remaining a normal trichromat with his right one.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blue-blindness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: yellow-blue dichromacy, yellow-blue color blindness
From trito- (“third (color)”) + an- (“without”) + -opia (“vision”).
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
蓝色盲
— a form of color blindness
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Chinese Mandarin:
第三色盲
— a form of color blindness
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Finnish:
tritanopia
— a form of color blindness
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Finnish:
sinisokeus
— a form of color blindness
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Galician:
tritanopía
— a form of color blindness
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Portuguese:
tritanopia
— a form of color blindness
