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Minamata disease

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Noun
  1. 1
    A neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From Japanese 水俣病 (minamatabyō), literally “Minamata disease”, after Minimata, the Japanese city where the disease was first discovered.

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