单词 | blue-blindness |
释义 | blue-blindnessn. Medicine and Physiology. A form of abnormal colour vision characterized by reduced sensitivity to light in the blue region of the spectrum, as an inherited (autosomal dominant) or acquired condition; = tritanopia n. Cf. green-blindness n., red-blindness n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > colour blindness Daltonism1841 xanthopsia1842 colour blindness1844 chromatopsia1848 achromatopsia1849 chromatometablepsy1849 chromatopseudopsy1849 acritochromacy1855 dichromatism1859 blue-blindness1868 green-blindness1868 red-blindness1868 chromatopsy1879 red vision1880 dyschromatopsia1890 xanthocyanopy1890 xanthocyanopsy1891 dichromacy1892 monochromatism1893 violet-blindness1894 monochromacy1900 deuteranopia1901 protanopia1902 tritanopia1915 deuteranomaly1932 protanomaly1932 tritanomaly1943 1868 Friends Rev. 14 Nov. 181 He [sc. Goethe] gave to this deficiency the Greek name akyanoblepsy, or blue-blindness. 1879 Bucks County (Pa.) Gaz. 20 Feb. 2/2 Red-blindness, blue-blindness, green-blindness, violet-blindness and in fact every kind of color-blindness was disclosed. 1900 Med. Rev. 3 555/2 Except in separation of the retina, the areas of blue-blindness were almost always small and central. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 44 185 An attempt was made to determine whether she was a case of so-called blue-blindness. 1972 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 29 June b3/3 Some of the factors that can be involved in blue-blindness are malnutrition, diabetes and certain medications including tranquilizers. 2006 R. C. King et al. Dict. Genetics (ed. 7) 92/2 Blue-blindness is quite rare and due to an autosomal gene. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1868 |
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