Please Explain My Eye Color - Anyone Seen These Before?!
Question:
Please Explain My Eye Color - Anyone Seen These Before?
My eyes are a blue with an orange-appearing ring around the pupil. Anyone else have eyes like these? If my eyes were green with this ring, like my sister, they would be called hazel. Is there a name for blue ones?
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Answers:
It is called central Heterochromia iridis! This just means 2 different colors in the same iris! I know someone with the exact same eyes....they look pretty neat! The term for having 2 different color eyes is very similar " Heterochromia iridum" (like having one blue eye and the other brown for example)
Central Heterochromia is where the central (pupillary) zone of the iris is a darker color than the mid-peripheral (ciliary) zone...(example: blue eye with brown around the pupil like your eyes) Technically your eyes would be considered blue because they are mostly that color!
Check out these links for some more info and pictures:
http://www.milesresearch.com/main/eyesig...
http://cnri.edu/iridology_faq/iris_color...
This is usually very normal and only a cause for concern if this appears suddenly or begins to change!!!