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Blindness can be caused by many diseases, but is not a disease. Therefore, it is a disorder.
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Is color blindness an infectious disease like the common flu or influenza?
No, it is not an infectious disease like a cold or flu. Color blindness occurs in people who have a specific genetic trait for it. They often have adapted to the visual disorder by the time they are tested to find out they have it.
What is the deficiency disease of vitamin a?
Deficiency disease is night blindness.
Is Red-green color blindness an X-linked recessive disorder?
yes
What does somatic disorder mean?
Somatc=body cell; disorder=disease. Therefore a disease of the body - not affecting germline cells.
What is sex linked disorder?
it means that you inherit this form of disorder either from your mother or father's sex chromosomes. For example- color blindness or Haemophillia.
Is color blindness an infectious disease like the common flu or influenza?
No, it is not an infectious disease like a cold or flu. Color blindness occurs in people who have a specific genetic trait for it. They often have adapted to the visual disorder by the time they are tested to find out they have it.
Genetic disorder called word blindness?
It has not been determined that "word blindness" is a genetic disorder. This colloquial term sometimes refers to dyslexia, a developmental communication disorder or alexia, an acquired communication disorder.
What is a deficiency disease of vitamin a?
Deficiency disease is night blindness.
What is the deficiency disease of vitamin a?
Deficiency disease is night blindness.
Deficiency disease of vitamin a?
blindness
How can cigarettes cause blindness with graves disease?
If you have the disease and accidentally stab yourself in the eyes with a lit cigarette....blindness may occur.
What is a sex-linked genetic disorder.?
color blindness is one
How do people contract the disease color blindness?
Color blindness is hereditary and non-communicable.
Is cadmium a disease or disorder?
its a disorder
Is dyslexia a disease or a disorder?
Disorder
Why is color blindness classed as non infectious?
Although it is a disease it is not contagious. If you were in close contact with a person who had color blindness you would not catch the disease.
How is it corrected colour blindness?
There is no cure for color blindness. It is a disorder that is passed from mother to son in fetal development and is genetic in nature.
