blue blindness

blue blindness
blue-yellow blindness popular names for inability to distinguish blue and yellow tints, such as in tritanopia.

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  • colour blindness — Inability to distinguish one or more colours. The human retina contains three types of cone cells that absorb light in different parts of the spectrum. Absence of these types causes colour blindness to red, green, and blue. Colour blindness is a… …   Universalium

  • yellow-blue color blindness — noun confusion of yellow and blue • Syn: ↑yellow blue dichromacy • Hypernyms: ↑dichromacy, ↑dichromatism, ↑dichromatopsia, ↑dichromia, ↑dichromasy • Hyponyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • yellow-blue dichromacy — noun confusion of yellow and blue • Syn: ↑yellow blue color blindness • Hypernyms: ↑dichromacy, ↑dichromatism, ↑dichromatopsia, ↑dichromia, ↑dichromasy • Hyponyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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