Deuteranopia

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A form of color blindness in which the retina is deficient in or lacks cone cells containing opsins that respond to the color green, resulting in an inability to distinguish red from green.

    "Deuteranomalous subjects show ordering behaviour similar to the behaviour of normal colour vision subjects, but less like their colleagues with deuteranopia."

  2. 2
    dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red wordnet

Etymology

From deutero- (“second (color)”) + an- (“without”) + -opia (“vision”).

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