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English noun: Minamata disease

1. Minamata disease (state) 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


Broader (hypernym)mercury poisoning









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