Research Notes on Color Blindness Causes
Color blindness, a color vision deficiency in humans, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals. Color blindness always pertains to the cone photoreceptors in our retina as the cones are capable of detecting the color frequencies of light we perceive. ...read more from Wikipedia
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- Wikipedia: Causes
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- Mayo Clinic: Causes
- A.D.A.M (via MedlinePlus): Causes
- MedicineNet: What Causes Color Blindness
- aHealthyMe: Causes And Symptoms
- Univeristy of Illinois: What Causes Color Vision Defects?
- KidsHealth: Color Blindness Is Passed Down
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (via HealthAtoZ): Causes And Symptoms
- EyeCareSource: What Causes Color Blindness?
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