COLORBLINDNESS
Color blindness
Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions. Color blindness affects a significant percentage of the population. There is no actual blindness but there is a deficiency of color vision. The most usual cause is a fault in the development of one or more sets of retinal cones that perceive color in light and transmit that information to the optic nerve. This type of color blindness is usually a sex-linked condition. The genes that produce photopigments are carried on the X chromosome; if some of these genes are missing or damaged, color ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Color blindness
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color blindness
Noun
- Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially Achromatopsia, Daltonism.
- Indifference to a person's skin color or race.
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colorblindness
Noun
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