dichromacy

Noun

Meaning

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)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

daltonism dichromatism deuteranopia protanopia achromia dichromasy dichromatopsia dichromia

Hypernyms

color blindness colour blindness color vision deficiency colour vision deficiency

Hyponyms

yellow-blue color blindness red-green color blindness red-green colour blindness red-green dichromacy yellow-blue dichromacy

Phrases with the word

yellow-blue dichromacy

Examples

Dichromacy conditions are labeled based on whether the "first" ( Greek : prot-, referring to the red photoreceptors), "second" (deuter-, the green), or "third" (trit-, the blue) photoreceptors are affected. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dichroistic dichroite dichroitic dichromasy dichromat dichromate