n. A form of color blindness. Involves a defect in distinguishing between red and green.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In physiology and psychophysics, a word introduced by von Kries to designate the form of red-green color-blindness termed by the Helmholtzian school ‘red-blindness.’
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n. dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue
Word Usage
"The regular color blindness tests (Ishikawa plates) test primarily for red-green (protanopia and deuteranopia), and not for tritanopia."