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red-green colour blindness

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Noun1.red-green colour blindness - confusion of red and green
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)
Daltonism, deuteranopia, green-blindness - dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
protanopia, red-blindness - dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue


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Red-green colour blindness is the commonest disease in humans that can be pinned to just a single mutation in the genetic code.
 
 
 
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