Bizarre eye color. How does this happen?!


Question: My daughter has one eye that is hazel. Her other eye is perfectly divided in half by two different colors. One half is hazel and the other half is blue. The line is a perfect, vertical division of color. How does this happen? It has been this way since birth (15 years ago).


Answers: My daughter has one eye that is hazel. Her other eye is perfectly divided in half by two different colors. One half is hazel and the other half is blue. The line is a perfect, vertical division of color. How does this happen? It has been this way since birth (15 years ago).

This seems like a condition known as heterochromia.

Heterochromia basically means that there's a difference in colouration.

In the case of the eyes, you can have two different coloured irises, or an iris made up of two colours.
The former condition is called complete heterochromia, and the latter is called sectoral heterochromia. When heterochromia presents in the iris of the eyes, it's called heterochromia iridis, specifically.

Eye colour comes from the concentration of melanin (the pigment that causes skin colour) in the tissue. In the case of your daughter, I'd say it's genetic. And pretty cool!

wow, how beautiful, lucky girl, dont worry its genetic





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