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Definition of Red-green colour blindness
1. Noun. Confusion of red and green.
Generic synonyms: Dichromacy, Dichromasy, Dichromatism, Dichromatopsia, Dichromia
Specialized synonyms: Daltonism, Deuteranopia, Green-blindness, Protanopia, Red-blindness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-green Colour Blindness
Literary usage of Red-green colour blindness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1892)
"... confine ourselves to the consideration of the particular variety of partial
colour-blindness which we shall call red- green colour-blindness. ..."
2. Lessons in elementary physiology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1902)
"... particularly since red- green colour-blindness is most common and red and
green are exactly the two colours ordinarily used for signals. ..."
3. Lessons in Elementary Physiology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1915)
"... particularly since red-green colour-blindness is most common and red and green
are exactly the two colours ordinarily used for signals. ..."
4. The Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases by James Purves-Stewart (1908)
"Congenital red-green colour-blindness is the commonest variety. Yellow-blue
colour-blindness is less common. If a patient be totally colour-blind he will ..."
5. The Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases by James Purves-Stewart (1906)
"Congenital red-green colour-blindness is the commonest variety. Yellow-blue
colour-blindness is rarer. If a patient be totally colour-blind he will confuse ..."
6. Infant Schools: Their History and Theory by David Salmon, Winifred Hindshaw (1904)
"... the " red-green colour-blindness," in which red and green are not distinguished
from each other—the child " matches " a dark red with a dark green, ..."