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mercury poisoning

DEFINITIONS OF: mercury poisoning

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n 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

Types:
Minamata disease
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
Type of:
intoxication, poisoning, toxic condition
the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance
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