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MINAMATA DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Minamata disease" is a kind of...):
mercury poisoning (a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury; acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death)
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