Tritanopia

Tritanopia is an extremely rare form of colour blindness characterised by a selective deficiency of blue vision.

Macular degeneration

A nonspecific term denoting degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium and/or retinal photoreceptor cells of the macula lutea.


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PMID (PMCID)
3956358
 MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
Cone function and cone interaction in hereditary degenerations of the central retina.
Zrenner E, Nowicki J, Adamczyk R.
Doc Ophthalmol. 1986;62(1):5-12.
Vitelliform macular degeneration, despite the ophthalmoscopically pronounced dystrophic macula, produced only very small changes in spectral sensitivity and transient tritanopia, although a widened matching range on the Nagel anomaloscope and electrophysiological abnormalities were found.
3956358
 MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
Cone function and cone interaction in hereditary degenerations of the central retina.
Zrenner E, Nowicki J, Adamczyk R.
Doc Ophthalmol. 1986;62(1):5-12.
Spectral sensitivity functions and the transient decrease of sensitivity to short wavelengths after the offset of yellow light (transient tritanopia) were measured by increment threshold techniques in patients suffering from hereditary macular degenerations.