tritanopia

physiology
Also known as: blue blindness

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limited colour perspective

  • colour blindness
    In colour blindness: Types of colour blindness

    …blue-yellow colour blindness are known: tritanopia (blindness to blue, usually with the inability to distinguish between blue and yellow), which occurs when blue cones are absent; and tritanomaly (reduced sensitivity to blue), which arises from the abnormal function of blue cones.

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  • cross section of the human eye
    In human eye: Colour defectiveness

    Tritanopes (people with blue blindness) are rare, constituting only 1 in 13,000 to 65,000 of the population. Because tritanopes are blue blind, their colour discrimination is best in the region of red to green, where that of protanopes and deuteranopes is worse.

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