Ishihara test

Ishihara test
/ish'ee hahr"euh/, Ophthalm.
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.
[1920-25; named after S. Ishihara (1879-1963), Japanese eye specialist, who devised it]

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