erythrochloropia

noun

Partial color blindness with ability to distinguish correctly only red and green.

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Meanings

nounerythrochloropia (uncountable)
  1. archaicrareuncountablePartial color blindness with ability to distinguish correctly only red and green.

    In pure cases, only the spectral red and green are recognized correctly (Mauthner's erythrochloropia), not however the other colors.

    1905, Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker, Augustus Adolph Eshner, Text-book of Human Physiology

Origin

From erythro- + chloro- + -opia.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with erythrochloropia

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APA

erythrochloropia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erythrochloropia

MLA

“erythrochloropia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erythrochloropia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “erythrochloropia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erythrochloropia.

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