Ishihara plates test
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Ishihara color test — The Ishihara Color Test is a test for red green color deficiencies. It was named after its designer, Dr. Shinobu Ishihara, a professor at the University of Tokyo, who first published his tests in 1917. S. Ishihara, Tests for colour blindness… … Wikipedia
Ishihara plates — the pseudoisochromatic plates used in the Ishihara test … Medical dictionary
Ishihara — Shinobu, Japanese ophthalmologist, 1879–1963. See I. test. * * * Ishi·ha·ra .ish ē här ə adj of, relating to, or used in an Ishihara test <Ishihara plates> <the Ishihara method> Ishi·ha·ra ē shē hä rä Shinobu (1879 1963) Japanese… … Medical dictionary
Ishihara test — n a widely used test for color blindness that consists of a set of plates covered with colored dots which the test subject views in order to find a number composed of dots of one color which a person with various defects of color vision will… … Medical dictionary
test — 1. To prove; to try a substance; to determine the chemical nature of a substance by means of reagents. 2. A method of examination, as to determine the presence or absence of a definite disease or of some substance in any of the fluids, tissues,… … Medical dictionary
Color perception test — Intervention Example of an Ishihara color test plate. The numeral 74 should be clearly visible to viewers with normal color vision. Viewers with dichromat or anomalous trichromat may read it as 21 , and viewers with achromat may see nothing … Wikipedia
Shinobu Ishihara — nihongo|Shinobu Ishihara |石原 忍| Ishihara Shinobu |extra=September 25, 1879 January 3, 1963 was a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness.Early life and careerShinobu graduated from medicine in 1905… … Wikipedia
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Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… … Universalium
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