| A/C | albumin/coagulin [ratio]; anterior chamber of eye; assist control [ventilation] |
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| BES | balanced electrolyte solution; Baltimore Eye Study |
| BEV | baboon endogenous virus; beam's eye view |
| CAGE | cut down, annoyed by criticism, guilty about drinking, eye-opener drinks (a test for alcoholism) |
| CEET | chicken enucleated eye test |
| colour spectrum | The continuum of colours that white light forms on passing through a prism or diffraction grating. Synonym: colour spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| colour vision defects | Mild to severe impairment in the ability to discriminate or differentiate hues. This disorder may be acquired as a result of diseases of the cones or x chromosome-linked where there is an abnormality but not a complete absence of one of the cone pigments. (12 Dec 1998) |
| 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) |
| Helmholtz theory of colour vision | A theory that there are three colour-perceiving elements in the retina: red, green, and blue. Perception of other colours arises from the combined stimulation of these elements; deficiency or absence of any one of these elements results in inability to perceive that colour and a misperception of any other colour of which it forms a part. Synonym: Helmholtz theory of colour vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saturated colour | A colour containing a minimum amount of whiteness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hering's theory of colour vision | That there are three opponent visual processes: blue-yellow, red-green, and white-black. (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) |
| Doppler colour flow | A computer-generated colour image produced by Doppler ultrasonography in which different directions of flow are represented by different hues. This technique is typically used to examine blood flow when evaluating heart disease. Where obstructions (for instance, arterial plaques) exist, blood flow will alter according to the principles of fluid mechanics. Eddies and reversals are readily apparent on the colour image. See: Doppler ultrasonography. (05 Mar 2000) |