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DEUTERANOPIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
Synonyms:
Daltonism; deuteranopia; green-blindness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("deuteranopia" is a kind of...):
red-green color blindness; red-green colour blindness; red-green dichromacy (confusion of red and green)
Derivation:
deuteranopic (inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red)