Definition of tritanopia in English:
tritanopia
noun ˌtrɪtəˈnəʊpɪəˌtrītnˈōpēə
mass nounA rare form of colour blindness resulting from insensitivity to blue light, causing confusion of greens and blues.
Compare with protanopia
Example sentencesExamples
- A useful tool for reviewing information about color-blindness and checking legibility of images for color-blind users is Vischeck, an on-line tool that simulates the way an image or a website might appear to a user who has deuteranopia, protanopia, or tritanopia.
- With tritanopia, the person is deficient in blue and yellow perception, although he is still sensitive to red and green.
- Sometimes tritanopia occurs due to disease, because the short wavelength cone is more fragile than the other cone types.
- Only about 0.005% of the population (male and female) are totally colour blind, and 0.003% have tritanopia, or blue-blindness.
- Protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia are all types of dichromatism.
Origin
Early 20th century: from trito- 'third' (referring to blue as the third colour in the spectrum) + an-1 'without' + -opia.