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====Color blindness is a common disorder in which a cone in the human eye is damaged or missing at birth and that cause that person trouble to tell the difference between colors. The correct medical term for this disorder color deficiency. A person whom is colorblind doesn't mean they can only see black, gray, and white. That is the rarest type of colorblindness, the most common color blindness is red/green color blindness. This means that their eye cannot tell the difference between the colors red and green together and or different shades of those colors together.====

** The symptoms of color vision problems vary: **

 * You may see many colors, so you may not know that you see color differently from others.
 * You may only be able to see a few shades of color, while most people can see thousands of colors.
 * In rare cases, you may see only black, white, and gray.

Ways to become colorblind:
1. Inherited 2. Aging 3. Injury to the eye 4. Side effects of certian medicines 5. Eye problems, such as [|glaucoma], [|macular degeneration], [|cataracts], or [|diabetic retinopathy].

Treatments/preventions:
Color blindness is one disorder that is unlikely to be treated. If a person is born or developed it over aging it cannot be cured. Some medicines that cause it, diseases, or injuries that cause color blindness may be treated but is rare. The only thing that doctors can do is give you different colored contacts that make you see the same color like before but makes it different shades so at least you know the colors a different. This is, however, not a cure by the medical term for it doesn't really fix the problem. Therefore doctors will same in most cases color blindness is untreatable.

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[[image:http://www.vischeck.com/images/Gaugin_small_deut.jpg width="200" height="159" align="top" caption="Dichromat version of painting"]]This is what a red/green colorblind person sees.
===This is what it looks like to a person colorblind but with different specialized color contacts.===

Links to a website and works cited page:
@http://www.vischeck.com/daltonize/ Works Cited