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YELLOW-BLUE DICHROMACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confusion of yellow and blue
Synonyms:
yellow-blue color blindness; yellow-blue dichromacy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("yellow-blue dichromacy" 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 "yellow-blue dichromacy"):
tetartanopia; yellow-blindness (a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light; so rare that its existence has been questioned)
blue-blindness; tritanopia (rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow)
