Definition: 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.
Other names Monochromatopsia; Color Blindness; Achromatopsia; Vision Defects, Color; Vision Defect, Color; Red-Green Color Blindness; Red Color Blindness; Inherited Color Blindness; Green Color Blindness; Defects, Color Vision; Defect, Deutan; Defect, Color Vision; Color Vision Defect; Color Blindness, Red Green; Blue Color Blindness; Blindness, Color; Acquired Color Blindness; Tritan Defect; Protan Defect; Deutan Defect
