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Descriptor
English
:
Color Vision Defects
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Defectos de la Visión Cromática
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Defeitos da Visão Cromática
Synonyms
English
:
Color Blindness
Achromatopsia
Monochromatopsia
Tree Number:
C10.597.751.941.256
C11.966.256
C23.888.592.763.941.256
Definition
English
:
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) that code the photopigments for red, green and blue.
See Related
English
:
Cones (Retina)
Retinal Diseases
History Note
English
:
90; was COLOR BLINDNESS 1963-89
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Record Number:
28241
Unique Identifier:
D003117
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