Ishihara test


Ishihara test

 [ish″e-hah´rah] a test for color vision made by the use of a series of pseudoisochromatic plates or charts.

Ish·i·ha·ra test

(ish-ē-hah'rah), a test for color vision deficiency that uses a series of pseudoisochromatic plates on which numbers or letters are printed in dots of primary colors surrounded by dots of other colors; the figures are discernible by patients with normal color vision.

Ish·i·ha·ra test

(ē'shē-hah'rah test) Assessment for color vision deficiency that uses a series of pseudoisochromatic plates on which numbers or letters are printed in dots of primary colors surrounded by dots of other colors; the figures are discernible by observers with normal color vision.

Ishihara,

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