b 21020 Light sensitivity

Last modified
19 June 2020
Disability

Seeing functions of sensing a minimum amount of light (light minimum), and the minimum difference in intensity (light difference).

For example impairments such as night blindness as in retinitis pigmentosa.

or light sensitivity due to coloboma of the iris. Without the full ability to control the amount of light entering the eye, a person may have discomfort and poorer vision in bright light. Use of a hat and sunglasses would then be recommended for daytime travel, recreation, or work. A small coloboma or a coloboma of the iris may have little to no impact on vision.

Functional Disability

Inclusion functions of dark adaptation

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Disease

Dysgenesis of the hard and soft tissues of the first...

Coloboma of the iris arises from failed or incomplete closure...

Developmental disorder of the eye in which one (unilateral microphthalmia)...