tritanopia

== English == === Etymology === From trito- (“third (color)”) +‎ an- (“without”) +‎ -opia (“vision”). === Noun === tritanopia (countable and uncountable, plural tritanopias) (ophthalmology) A form of color blindness in which the retina is deficient in or lacks cone cells containing opsins that respond to the color blue, resulting in an inability to distinguish blue from green. 1997, M. Alpern, K. Kitahara, D. H. Krantz, 9: Perception of Colour in Unilateral Tritanopia, Alex Byrne, David R. Hilbert (editors), Readings on Color, Volume 2: The Science of Color, page 231, M. Alpern et. al 1983 gives results of colour matching and colour discrimination for each eye separately of a subject who acquired tritanopia in his left eye while remaining a normal trichromat with his right one. ==== Hypernyms ==== (form of color blindness): color blindness, blue-yellow color blindness ==== Related terms ==== deuteranopia protanopia tritanope ==== Translations ==== === See also === achromatopsia cone dystrophy deuteranomaly dichromacy tetrachromacy trichromacy tritanomaly === Anagrams === patriation == Finnish == === Etymology === Internationalism (see English tritanopia). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtritɑnopiɑ/, [ˈt̪rit̪ɑ̝ˌno̞piɑ̝] Rhymes: -opiɑ Syllabification(key): tri‧ta‧no‧pi‧a Hyphenation(key): tri‧ta‧no‧pia === Noun === tritanopia tritanopia Synonym: sinisokeus ==== Declension ====