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Definition of Green-blindness
1. Noun. Dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red.
Generic synonyms: Red-green Color Blindness, Red-green Colour Blindness, Red-green Dichromacy
Derivative terms: Deuteranopic, Green-blind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green-blindness
Literary usage of Green-blindness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"When green-blindness is induced by exposure of the eye to intense green light,
... Probably in the case of green-blindness the green sensation is not ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The two types of red-green blindness he explains as due to difference of macular
pigmentation. Blue- yellow blindness may be due to failure of the ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1885)
"The most noteworthy of these is the unusual prevalence of "incomplete" green-
blindness among our students. From the far more extended series of tests ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"It has been stated that the neutral band occupies a different position in the
two classes of red-green blindness, but this does not appear to be the case. ..."
5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The two types of red-green blindness he explains as due to difference of macular
pigmentation. Blue- yellow blindness may be due to failure of the ..."
6. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"A person afflicted with red-blindness (red-green blindness, according to Hering),
... Red- and green-blindness are the most usual manifestations of ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"If the red-green substance is lacking, there will be red-green blindness or ...
In red-green blindness, for example, red, yellow, and green act in a dis- ..."
8. Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical Anatomy by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"Red-green Blindness.—The spectrum is dichromatic; yellow and blue arc- ...
green-blindness appears first, and is followed shortly by red-blindness. ..."
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