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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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- Color Vision Deficiency
- Color Vision Defect
- Color Vision Deficiencies
- Defect, Color Vision
- Defects, Color Vision
- Deficiencies, Color Vision
- Deficiency, Color Vision
- Vision Defect, Color
- Vision Defects, Color
- Vision Deficiencies, Color
- Vision Deficiency, Color
- Achromatopsia
- Color Blindness
- Color Blindness, Acquired
- Color Blindness, Blue
- Color Blindness, Green
- Color Blindness, Inherited
- Color Blindness, Red
- Color Blindness, Red-Green
- Deutan Defect
- Monochromatopsia
- Protan Defect
- Tritan Defect
- Achromatopsias
- Acquired Color Blindness
- Blindness, Color
- Blue Color Blindness
- Color Blindness, Red Green
- Defect, Deutan
- Green Color Blindness
- Inherited Color Blindness
- Red Color Blindness
- Red-Green Color Blindness
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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90; was COLOR BLINDNESS 1963-89
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Color Vision Defects. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003117. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003117
- Color Vision Defects. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
- Color Vision Defects. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133696