Etymology

tritanopia

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Today it means: A form of color blindness in which the retina is deficient in or lacks cone cells containing opsins that respond to the color blue, resulting in an inability to distinguish blue from green. Full definition →

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The story

From trito- (“third (color)”) + an- (“without”) + -opia (“vision”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.