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Definition of Colour blindness
1. Noun. Genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue.
Specialized synonyms: Dichromacy, Dichromasy, Dichromatism, Dichromatopsia, Dichromia, Monochromacy, Monochromasy, Monochromatic Vision, Monochromatism, Monochromia
Generic synonyms: Birth Defect, Congenital Abnormality, Congenital Anomaly, Congenital Defect, Congenital Disorder, Vision Defect, Visual Defect, Visual Disorder, Visual Impairment
Derivative terms: Color-blind, Colour-blind
Definition of Colour blindness
1. Noun. (pathology) The inability to perceive differences between some or all colours. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Colour blindness
1. A sex-linked inherited condition where there is an inability to distinguish colours. Very few women are colour blind, but up to 10% of all men have some degree of colour blindness. The most common for is red-green colour blindness. The second most common is blue-yellow. Inheritance: sex-linked (X chromosome). (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colour Blindness
Literary usage of Colour blindness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Acquired colour-blindness occurs in case of degenerated diseases of the eye, and
the perception for form, which is independent of the colour sense in ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"... is possible to induce over the whole retina a " On artificial temporary
Colour-blindness, with an Examination I condition of temporary colour-blindness. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"London Medical Record, April 15, 1881. Colour-Blindness. A valuable contribution
to our knowledge of colour-blindness has been made by Dr. de ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"The question of colour-blindness, which, when first described 90 years ago, ...
Colour-blindness in its typical form is congenital, and, with the very ..."
5. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON colour blindness. BY A. KIRSCHMANN. The case of colour-blindness
above reported deserves attention in several respects. ..."
6. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Lastly we may remark that absolute colour-blindness, a condition in which shades
of black and white alone indicate the features of external objects, ..."
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