Tritanopia

Synonyms for "tritanopia" (3 found)

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Chinese Mandarin

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  • 第三色盲 noun (a form of color blindness)
  • 蓝色盲 noun (a form of color blindness)

Finnish

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  • sinisokeus noun (a form of color blindness)
  • tritanopia noun (a form of color blindness)

Galician

1 entries
  • tritanopía noun (a form of color blindness)

Portuguese

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  • tritanopia noun (a form of color blindness)

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Tritanopia is an extremely rare hereditary condition corresponding to a loss in function of the short wavelength sensitive cones. To produce transient tritanopia, the eye of the normal observer is first strongly adapted to a yellow light that maximally adapts the pigment of the long and middle wavelength cones, but has relatively less influence on the short wavelength sensitive cones.

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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.

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People with an inborn blue-green blindness (tritanopia) may completely lack the function of these receptor cells.[…]The inheritance of inborn tritanopia is not sex-linked; the gene for the S-cone opsin is localized to chromosome 7.

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