Are you amazed by how a person’s eye color is different from yours? You may have striking chocolate brown-colored eyes while your best friend dons a pair of blue peepers. But would you agree that having two eyes with varying colors from each other is amazing too? Yes, it certainly is. If you are unfamiliar with the term scientifically used to describe this case, it is “heterochromia.” Records show that this case only occurs among six people in a thousand, but it is common in animals, like dogs and cats.
Heterochromia comes in different types or forms. One type is the heterochromia iridium (or complete heterochromia) where your irises may be a complete mismatch. Another type is heterochromia iridis (or segmental heterochromia) where you only have a patch of a different hue in one of your irises.
Central heterochromia is the most common heterochromia, and this one is not a complete mismatch. What happens here is that the irises come with a color different from the main one around the pupils. A famous person with this type of heterochromia is Olivia Wilde.
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