Color vision impairment

Introduction: Color vision impairment

Description of Color vision impairment

Color vision impairment: Defects of color vision are mainly hereditary traits but can be secondary to acquired or developmental abnormalities in the CONES (RETINA). Severity of hereditary defects of color vision depends on the degree of mutation of the OPSIN genes (on X CHROMOSOME and CHROMOSOME 3, HUMAN) that code the photopigments for red, green and blue.
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Color vision impairment: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Color vision impairment:

• Color vision
• Color vision symptoms (6 causes)
• Color vision problem (6 causes)
• Vision impairment (1545 causes)
• Color
• Vision
• Vision symptoms (2526 causes)
• Vision disorder

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Terms Similar to Color vision impairment:

• Colorblindness
• Dyschromatopsia
• Colour vision impairment
• Achromatism
• Color blindness

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