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DEFINITION<\/h2>\n

Poor color vision is a reduced ability to distinguish between certain colors. Although many people use the term “colorblind” to refer to the reduced ability to discriminate between colors, true colorblindness is a total lack of color vision, which is rare.<\/p>\n

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Poor color vision is usually inherited. Men are more likely to be born with poor color vision. Most people with poor color vision can’t distinguish between certain shades of red and green. Less commonly, people with poor color vision can’t distinguish between shades of blue and yellow.<\/p>\n

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Certain eye diseases and some medications also can cause poor color vision.<\/p>\n

CAUSES<\/h2>\n

Seeing colors across the light spectrum begins with your eyes’ ability to distinguish the primary colors red, blue and green.<\/p>\n

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Light enters your eye through the cornea and passes through the lens and transparent, jelly-like tissue in your eye (vitreous body) to color-sensitive cells (cones) at the back of your eye in the retina. Chemicals in the cones distinguish colors and send that information through your optic nerve to your brain.<\/p>\n

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If your eyes are normal, you can distinguish different colors, but if your cones lack one or more light-sensitive chemicals, you may see only two of the primary colors.<\/p>\n

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Poor color vision has several causes:<\/p>\n

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