red-green dichromacy

/rɛd grin/

Definitions of red-green dichromacy

1. noun

   confusion of red and green
   synonyms: red-green color blindness, red-green colour blindness

   types:

   Daltonism, deuteranopia, green-blindness

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

   protanopia, red-blindness

   dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue

   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)