Protanopia

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  • noun. A form of colorblindness characterized by defective perception of red and confusion of red with green or bluish green.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In physiology and psychophysics, a word introduced by von Kries to designate the form of red-green color-blindness termed by the Helmholtzian school ‘red-blindness.’
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  • noun. A form of color blindness. Involves a defect in distinguishing between red and green.
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  • noun. dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue
  • Word Usage
    "The regular color blindness tests (Ishikawa plates) test primarily for red-green (protanopia and deuteranopia), and not for tritanopia."
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