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noun
A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s; characterized by severe neurological degeneration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mercury poisoning
History
From Japanese 水俣病 (minamatabyō), literally “Minamata disease”, after Minimata, the Japanese city where the disease was first discovered.
