What sort of disease is color blindness?

Color deficiency: This is an inherited alteration in the color pigment spectrum sensation of the light receptors of the eye. More common in males, it causes the person having it to make color confusions that the color normal would have no problem with. Your ophthalmologist can present you with color recognition charts to determine the type and extent, and some of these are on line.

Color vision anomaly: Color blindness is a misnomer, as most color blind people see some colors, they just see the hues differently than the norm. This can be an advantage if looking at camoflage. Our cone cells come in three types to see red, blue and yellow, and the receptors in color vision defect patients are either lacking or at lower levels than i.