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Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.

Various scales have been developed to explain the extent of vision loss and describe "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," a short form for "no light perception." Blindness is often used to describe severe visual impairment with residual vision. Those described as having only "light perception" have no more sight than the ability to tell light from dark. A person with only "light projection" can tell the general direction of a light source.

In order to decide which people may need special help as of their visual disabilities, various governmental jurisdictions have formulated more complex definitions referred to as legal blindness.

Color blindness, a color vision shortage in animals, is the powerlessness to recognize differences between some of the colors that other people can distinguish. It is mainly frequently of genetic nature, however might too happen since of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to sure chemicals. Deuteranopia this term is used for a form of color blindness.
 
Color blindness is frequently classed as disability; though, in chosen situations color blind people have a benefit over people with normal color vision. There are some studies which conclude that color blind individuals are enhanced at penetrating certain camouflages.

Abnormalities such as optic nerve hypoplasia affect the nerve bundle that sends signals from the eye to the back of the brain, which can lead to decreased visual perception.

People with injuries to the brain can, in spite of having unspoiled eyes and optic nerves, still be officially or entirely blind.

Hereditary defects -

People with albinism frequently undergo from visual injury to the extent that many are legally blind, although few of them actually cannot see. Leber's congenital amaurosis is able to reason complete blindness or harsh sight loss from birth or early childhood.
Modern advances in mapping of the human genome have identified other genetic cause of low vision or blindness.

There is usually no treatment to cure color deficiencies. On the other hand, certain types of tinted filters and contact lenses might help out an individual to differentiate different colors.

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