Definition of Red-blind

1. Adjective. Inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green.

Exact synonyms: Protanopic
Similar to: Blind, Unsighted
Derivative terms: Protanopia, Red-blindness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-blind

red-backed lemming
red-backed mouse
red-backed sandpiper
red-backed shrike
red-baiter
red-baiters
red-baiting
red-banded sand wasp
red-banded sand wasps
red-bellied snake
red-bellied terrapin
red-bellied turtle
red-berried elder
red-berry
red-black tree
red-blind (current term)
red-blindness
red-blooded
red-breasted merganser
red-breasted nuthatch
red-breasted sapsucker
red-breasted snipe
red-brick
red-card
red-carpet
red-carpet(a)
red-coated
red-crested pochard
red-crested pochards
red-deer

Literary usage of Red-blind

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"It most be between the deepest and lightest shades of the scale. If he lays with this only blue and i-iolet or one of them he is red-blind. ..."

2. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"As the terms red-blind and green-blind imply a more specific condition of vision than is found to be the case on careful examination, von Kries has ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"As the terms red-blind and green-blind imply a more specific condition of vision than is found to be the case on careful examination, von Kries has ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"In the one class, the red-blind of the Young-Helmholtz theory, the relations of the primary sensations, the distribution along the spectrum of the visual ..."

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