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The irises of human eyes exhibit a wide spectrum of colours. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye's iris [1] [2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris.
Mongolian spot is a congenital developmental condition—that is, one existing from birth—exclusively involving the skin.The blue colour is caused by melanocytes, melanin-containing cells, that are usually located in the surface of the skin (the epidermis), but are in the deeper region (the dermis) in the location of the spot. [6]
An epicanthic fold or epicanthus [6] is a skin fold of the upper eyelid that covers the inner corner (medial canthus) of the eye. [3] However, variation occurs in the nature of this feature and the possession of "partial epicanthic folds" or "slight epicanthic folds" is noted in the relevant literature.
"His right eye was light blue, while the left was black, nevertheless his eyes were most attractive", is the description of the historian John Malalas. [33] [34] [35] A more recent example is the German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic, Johann Wolfgang Goethe. [36]
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The Eyes of Buddha on a stupa at Swayambhunath in Kathmandu, Nepal The Eyes of Buddha on the Swayambhunath stupa Eyes of Buddha adorned on a Stupa in the Gobi Desert in the Dornogovi Province of Mongolia. The Eyes of Buddha (also called Buddha eyes or Wisdom eyes [1]) is a symbol used in Buddhist art.
Cicadas have blue eyes because they are mutants. The University of Connecticut observed that some periodical cicadas have blue or white eyes, or some may lack red pigmentation in their wing veins.
The early Latter-Day Saint church printed its first images of Jesus as a white man with blue eyes. According to Blum and Harvey, the blue eyes may have been intended to bolster Mormonism's image of whiteness and Americanness, distinguishing it from Protestant faiths. [46]