PROTANOPIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protanopia mean? 

• PROTANOPIA (noun)
  The noun PROTANOPIA has 1 sense:

1. dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue

  Familiarity information: PROTANOPIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTANOPIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

protanopia; red-blindness

Hypernyms ("protanopia" is a kind of...):

red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness; red-green dichromacy (confusion of red and green)

Derivation:

protanopic (inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green)