What is Color blindness?

What is Color blindness?

• Color blindness: Difficulty distinguishing colors; various subtypes.
• Color blindness: 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.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Color blindness: genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Color blindness: Introduction

Types of Color blindness:

Types of Color blindness:

• Dichromasy - black-and-white vision; very rare
• Red-green color blindness - inability to distinguish red and green
• Deuteranopia
• Protanopia
• more types...»

Broader types of Color blindness:

• Eye conditions
• more types...»

How many people get Color blindness?

Prevalance of Color blindness: 13 per 1000 - NHIS95
Prevalance Rate of Color blindness: approx 1 in 76 or 1.30% or 3.5 million people in USA [about data]

How serious is Color blindness?

Complications of Color blindness: see complications of Color blindness

What causes Color blindness?

Causes of Color blindness: see causes of Color blindness
Risk factors for Color blindness: see risk factors for Color blindness

What are the symptoms of Color blindness?

Complications of Color blindness: see complications of Color blindness

Color blindness: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Color blindness.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Color blindness.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Color blindness: see treatments for Color blindness
Research for Color blindness: see research for Color blindness

Organs Affected by Color blindness:

Organs and body systems related to Color blindness include:

• Eye

Name and Aliases of Color blindness

Main name of condition: Color blindness

color blind, colour blind

Color vision impairment, Dyschromatopsia, Colour vision impairment, Achromatism Source - Diseases Database

Colour blindness, Color vision deficiency, Colour vision deficiency
Source - WordNet 2.1

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Color blindness:

• Aging
• Disease
• Injury to the eye (acquired color vision problems)
• Optic nerve problems
• Side effects of some medicines

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