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Color Vision Defects

"Color Vision Defects" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Color Vision Defects" by people in this website by year, and whether "Color Vision Defects" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 10 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2008
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