Other terms
Color Vision Defect,Defect, Color Vision,Defects, Color Vision,Vision Defect, Color,Vision Defects, Color,Color Blindness,Blindness, Color,Color Blindness, Acquired,Acquired Color Blindness,Monochromatopsia,Color Blindness, Green,Green Color Blindness,Color Blindness, Inherited,Inherited Color Blindness,Color Blindness, Red,Red Color Blindness,Protan Defect,Color Blindness, Red-Green,Color Blindness, Red Green,Red-Green Color Blindness,Deutan Defect,Defect, Deutan,Achromatopsia,Color Blindness, Blue,Blue Color Blindness,Tritan Defect
Description
Color Vision Defects: 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 ROD OPSINS genes (on X CHROMOSOME and CHROMOSOME 3) that code the photopigments for red, green and blue.
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