Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is a decreased ability to see color, to distinguish differences in color, or to distinguish shades of color. Its severity ranges from mostly unnoticeable to a full absence of color perception.
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Classification
ICD-10 ChapterVII: Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route Causative Agent
Causative Agent (category) Sources
1. Wikidata: Color Blindness
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Subclass of: vision disorder
2. Wikipedia: ICD-10
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Diseases of the eye and adnexa
3. Wikipedia: Non-communicable disease
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NCDs include Parkinson's disease, autoimmune diseases, strokes, heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others.
4. Wikipedia: Color blindness
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Color blindness is usually a sex-linked inherited problem or variation in the functionality of one or more of the three classes of cone cells in the retina, which mediate color vision.
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