| CVD | cardiovascular disease; cerebrovascular disease; collagen vascular disease; color-vision-deviant |
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| D&N | distance and near [vision] |
| DV | dependent variable; diagnostic variable; difference in volume; digital vibration; dilute volume; dis... |
| DVIU | direct-vision internal urethrotomy |
| Nv | naked vision |
| colour radical | The part of a visibly coloured molecule responsible for light absorption over a range of wavelengths thus giving rise to the colour. By extension the term may be applied to UV or IR absorbing parts of molecules. Do not confuse with chromatophores. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| colour scotoma | An area of depressed colour vision in the visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour sense | The ability to perceive variations in hue, luminosity, and saturation of light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour solid | A schematic arrangement of colour in space, the attributes of hue, saturation, and brightness being represented by cylindrical coordinates. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour spectrum | The continuum of colours that white light forms on passing through a prism or diffraction grating. Synonym: colour spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour taste | A form of synesthesia in which the colour sense and taste are associated, with stimulation of either sense inducing a subjective sensation in the associated sense. Synonym: pseudogeusesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour therapy | A form of phototherapy using colour to influence health and to treat various physical or mental disorders. The colour rays may be in the visible or invisible spectrum and can be administered through coloured lights or applied mentally through suggestion. (12 Dec 1998) |
| colour triangle | A graph on which chromaticity coordinates are plotted. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hair colour | Colour of hair or fur. (12 Dec 1998) |
| primary colour | The three colour's of the retinal cone pigments (red, green, blue) that may be combined to match any hue. Synonym: simple colour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saturated colour | A colour containing a minimum amount of whiteness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pure colour | A visual sensation produced by light of a specific wavelength. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simple colour | The three colour's of the retinal cone pigments (red, green, blue) that may be combined to match any hue. Synonym: simple colour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stilling colour tables | An obsolete charts in which coloured letters are printed on coloured backgrounds in such combination that some of them are invisible to a person with deficient colour vision. Synonym: Stilling colour tables. (05 Mar 2000) |
| structural colour | A colour created by an optical effect (e.g., via interference, refraction, or diffraction). Many naturally occurring blues fall in this class. Compare: natural pigment. Synonym: schemochromes. (05 Mar 2000) |