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yellow-blue color blindness

DEFINITIONS OF: yellow-blue color blindness

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n confusion of yellow and blue

Synonyms:
yellow-blue dichromacy
Types:
tetartanopia, yellow-blindness
a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light; so rare that its existence has been questioned
blue-blindness, tritanopia
rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow
Type of:
dichromacy, dichromasy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia
a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision)
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