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What does tritanopia mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
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With tritanopia, the person is deficient in blue and yellow perception, although he is still sensitive to red and green.
Protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia are all types of dichromatism.
The test makes it possible to diagnose almost all the anomalies of colour vision like deuteronopia, protonopia, tritanopia, etc.
Sometimes tritanopia occurs due to disease, because the short wavelength cone is more fragile than the other cone types.

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