"tritanopia" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tritanopias [plural]
Etymology: From trito- (“third (color)”) + an- (“without”) + -opia (“vision”). Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|trito|gloss1=third (color)}} trito- (“third (color)”) +, {{suffix|en||opia|gloss2=vision}} + -opia (“vision”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tritanopia (countable and uncountable, plural tritanopias)
  1. (ophthalmology) A form of color blindness in which the retina is deficient in or lacks cone cells containing opsins that respond to the color blue, resulting in an inability to distinguish blue from green. Wikipedia link: Color blindness Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Ophthalmology Hypernyms (form of color blindness): color blindness, blue-yellow color blindness Related terms: deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanope, achromatopsia, cone dystrophy, deuteranomaly, dichromacy, tetrachromacy, trichromacy, tritanomaly Translations (a form of color blindness): 蓝色盲 (Chinese Mandarin), 第三色盲 (Chinese Mandarin), tritanopia (Finnish), sinisokeus (Finnish), tritanopía [feminine] (Galician), tritanopia [feminine] (Portuguese)

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