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deuteranopia

deuteranopia noun: 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.

Noun

deuteranopia (plural deuteranopias)

  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.1995, T. N. White, D. Bosman, “4: Colour-deficient operators in process-control environments”, in Harman Kragt, editor, Enhancing Industrial Performance: Experiences With Integrating The Human...
    • A human with color blindness in the form of deuteranopia is missing the M cones and has only S and L cones present, resulting in a neutral point where the spectral absorption curves of the remaining pigments cross.2001, Ronald G. Boothe, Perception of the Visual Environment, page 210

deuteranopia meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

deuteranopia in Tamil

சிகப்பு, பச்சை கலப்பால் ஏற்படும் குறை

deuteranopia in Indonesian

a form of color blindness
deuteranopia

Forms of deuteranopia

pluraldeuteranopias

Origin of deuteranopia

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

Words formed from deuteranopia

Questions about deuteranopia

What does deuteranopia mean?
Deuteranopia means 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.
What is deuteranopia in Tamil?
Deuteranopia in Tamil is சிகப்பு, பச்சை கலப்பால் ஏற்படும் குறை. See Deuteranopia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is deuteranopia?
Deuteranopia is a noun.
What is the plural of deuteranopia?
The plural of deuteranopia is deuteranopias.

Words near deuteranopia in the dictionary

  1. deuteranomalies
  2. deuteranomalous
  3. deuteranomaly
  4. deuteranope
  5. deuteranopes
  6. deuteranopia
  7. deuteranopias
  8. deuteranopic
  9. deuterate
  10. deuterated
  11. deuterated water

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