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Ish⋅i⋅ha⋅ra test

[ish-ee-hahr-uh]
–noun Ophthalmology.
a test for determining color blindness by means of a series of cards each having colored dots that form one pattern to the normal eye and a different pattern to the eye that is color-blind.
Also, Ishihara's test.


Origin:
1920–25; named after S. Ishihara (1879–1963), Japanese eye specialist, who devised it
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Main Entry: Ishihara test
Function: noun
: a widely used test for color blindness that consists of a set of plates covered with colored dots which the test subject viewsin order to find a number composed of dots of one color which a person with various defects of color vision will confuse with surrounding dots of color
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Ishihara test Ish·i·ha·ra test (ĭsh'ĭ-hä'rə)
n.
A test for color-vision deficiency employing a series of plates on which numbers or letters are printed in dots of primary colors surrounded by dots of other colors; the figures are discernible by individuals with normal color vision.

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