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Minamata disease

[ min-uh-mah-tuh ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. 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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Mina Hassan TaniMinamoto