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Other names for colour blindness are:
- Monochromacy (total colour blindness)
- Daltonism (after scientist John Dalton who was a pioneer in studying colour blindness)
- Deuteranopia (red-green colour blindness)
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∙ 13y agoAchromatopsia: Totally colour deprived vision.
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Colour blindness is a generic name for one of many related conditions. The first person to be studied for the condition was the chemist and physicist, John Dalton (1766-1844), The initial medical term for the condition was "Daltonism" is derived from the name of his type of colour blindness - red-green deficient vision. After his death his eyes were removed so the medical students could "look through his eyes" to see if they filtered out the colours - they didn't.
Other types are
- Protanomaly: red-weakness
- Deuteranomaly: poor at discriminating small differences in hues in the red, orange, yellow, green region of the spectrum.
- Dichromasy: no perceptible difference between red, orange, yellow, and green.
- Protanopia: the brightness of red, orange, and yellow is much reduced compared to normal.
- Deuteranopia: the names red, orange, yellow, and green really mean very little
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∙ 11y agowhat is the proper name for colour blindness
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∙ 14y agoAchromatopsia
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∙ 13y agomonochromatism
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How is colour blindness passed on?
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who discovered color blindness
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Which is NOT true of color blindness?
It is not true that color blindness is most common in females. Color blindness is most common in males and approximately 8 percent of men have it.
What is the usual cause of color blindness?
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How do people contract the disease color blindness?
Color blindness is hereditary and non-communicable.
How do you treat red green color blindness?
Colour (color) blindness is genetic and is not curable.-- The question asks whether red-green color blindness is treatable, not curable.
How do you treat red-green color blindness?
Colour (color) blindness is genetic and is not curable.-- The question asks whether red-green color blindness is treatable, not curable.
Caused by UV light what is another name for photokeratitis?
Snow blindness
What is the cure of color blindness?
The cure of color blindness is to drink dairy products and get lots of excerise.
