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Vision disorders are the conditions which cause impairment in the sense of vision. These disorders are often caused by certain eye diseases or structural abnormalities of the eye balls. The common vision disorders include: Abnormal color vision : Abnormal color vision also termed as colorblindness is the inability to differentiate between certain shades of color. It is an inherited condition and men are more likely to be affected with this condition. Certain diseases of the eye and medications may also cause abnormal color vision. Patients with colorblindness may not be able to recognize the difference between shades of red and green, and shades of blue and yellow. Amblyopia (lazy eye) : Amblyopia is a condition in which there is reduced vision in one of the eyes because of incomplete development of the optic nerve pathway from that eye to the brain and as a result the brain receives blurred images from one eye. With the time brain ignores the impulses from affected eye thereby causing amblyopia. The affected eye appears normal however fails to send proper impulses to brain and the brain favors the other eye. It can also be caused by strabismus or the conditions in which one eye is more nearsighted, farsighted, or astigmatic than the other eye.