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RED-GREEN COLOR BLINDNESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Confusion of red and green

Synonyms:

red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness; red-green dichromacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("red-green color blindness" is a kind 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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red-green color blindness"):

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)

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