protanopia


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
protanopia /ˌprəʊtəˈnəʊpɪə/
noun colour blindness resulting from insensitivity to red light, causing confusion of greens, reds, and yellows. Compare with deuteranopia, tritanopia.
– origin early 20th cent.: from proto- ‘original’ (red being regarded as the first component of colour vision) + an-1 + -opia.
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