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nouna deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision)
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Definition that contains dichromacy
- red-blindness dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue
- deuteranopia dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
- green-blindness dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red
- protanopia dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue
- daltonism dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red