Usage Note
Farbenblindheit is a hereditary condition affecting the ability to distinguish certain colours, most commonly red and green (Rot-Grün-Schwäche). It affects about 8% of men in Germany and is tested at school eye screenings.
Examples
"Farbenblindheit ist bei Männern deutlich häufiger als bei Frauen."
Natural Translation
Colour blindness is considerably more common in men than in women.
Literal Translation
Colour-blindness is at men clearly more-frequent than at women.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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