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YELLOW-BLUE DICHROMACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow-blue dichromacy mean? 

YELLOW-BLUE DICHROMACY (noun)
  The noun YELLOW-BLUE DICHROMACY has 1 sense:

1. confusion of yellow and blueplay

  Familiarity information: YELLOW-BLUE DICHROMACY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOW-BLUE DICHROMACY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Confusion of yellow and blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

yellow-blue color blindness; yellow-blue dichromacy

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)


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