adjective
- relating to or affected by color blindness, especially red-green color blindness
Usage: medical/technical; named after John Dalton, the chemist who first described the condition
Examples
- His daltonic vision made it difficult to distinguish red traffic lights from green ones.
- The daltonic patient underwent testing to determine the type of color blindness.
- Daltonic individuals often have trouble with certain professions that require precise color discrimination.
- She discovered she was daltonic when she failed the color vision test at her eye exam.