protanopia

color blindness

Also known as: red blindness

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In colour blindness: Types of colour blindness
…to red is known as protanopia, a state in which the red cones are absent, leaving only the cones that absorb blue and green light. Blindness to green is known as deuteranopia, wherein green cones are lacking and blue and red cones are functional. Some persons experience anomalous dichromatic conditions,…
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In human eye: Colour defectiveness
Thus, protanopes (people with red blindness) require only blue and green to make colour matches. Whereas for people with normal (trichromatic) vision the various reds, oranges, yellows, and many greens are the result of mixing red and green, protanopes match all these with a green. In…
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