A cone dystrophy is an inherited disorder of the eye in which the cone cells are lost. Cones are the photoreceptors in the retina that give both central vision and color vision, so their loss damages the parts of sight a person relies on for reading, recognizing faces and telling colors apart. The condition is described as inherited, which places its cause in a person's genes rather than in injury or infection, and it is grouped with the retinal dystrophies that gradually change how the eye responds to light. In the Medicine Atlas it is recorded as a genetic ocular condition, one of the disorders in which a single class of retinal cell fails.
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ICD-10 ChapterVII: Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa 1 Communicable or Non-communicable Causative Agent
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1. Cone dystrophy (Wikipedia)
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inherited ocular disorder
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A cone dystrophy is an inherited ocular disorder
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A cone dystrophy is an inherited ocular disorder characterized by the loss of cone cells, the photoreceptors responsible for both central and color vision.
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