Translation for "colour blindness" to spanish

Colour blindness

• daltonismo

Translation examples

daltonismo

Perhaps I was born colour-blind.
Puede que yo sufra de daltonismo.

This moral clumsiness was a trait as ineradicable as tone deafness or colour blindness.
Esta torpeza moral era un rasgo tan imposible de erradicar como la falta de oído o el daltonismo.

Look, I’ve already told you that in matters of no direct concern to her my mother suffered from outright colour-blindness.
—Mira, ya te he dicho que mi madre padecía simplemente de daltonismo en lo que respecta a las cosas que no la afectaban de forma directa.

To make matters worse, in some bewildering way the man always seemed to miss the point – an intellectual colour-blindness or lack of instinct or intuition that no one else seemed to notice.
Desplegaba un daltonismo intelectual y una falta de instinto e intuición que nadie parecía percibir.

he said suddenly, as if an idea had struck him, “suppose we wanted to prove the old Warden colour-blind.
Pues suponga usted —dijo de repente, como si se le hubiese ocurrido una idea—, supóngase que quisiéramos probar que el viejo regente tenía un defecto en la vista, que sufría de daltonismo.

Not that you should think that was due to moral indifference on her part; no, it was just that as far as things that did not directly affect her were concerned she suffered from what was simply a form of colour-blindness.
Y no creas que la causa residiese en la indiferencia moral: no, en lo que respecta a las cosas que no le afectaban de forma directa, como, por ejemplo, la política, mi madre padecía simplemente de daltonismo;

Noting that the three colours then considered to be primaries – red, yellow and blue – could be mixed to generate almost any colour, he proposed that three receptors alone were enough to enable the eye to perceive a full range of colours: ‘Each sensitive filament of the [optic] nerve may consist of three portions, one for each principal colour.’ He imagined that colour blindness arises from the absence of one of the three sets of colour receptors in the eye.
Advirtiendo que los tres colores por entonces considerados primarios —rojo, amarillo y azul— podían mezclarse para generar casi cualquier color, propuso que bastaban solamente tres receptores para que el ojo pudiese percibir toda la gama de los colores: “Cada filamento sensible del nervio [óptico] puede estar formado por tres partes, una para cada color principal”. Imaginaba que la causa del daltonismo era la ausencia de uno de los tres conjuntos de receptores del color en el ojo.