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Minamata disease
[ min-uh-mah-tuh ]
noun
, Pathology.
- a severe form of mercury poisoning, characterized by neurological degeneration.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Minamata disease1
After Minamata Bay, Japan, where fish containing alkyl mercury compounds caused the disease in those who ate them during the period 1953–58
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