Minamata disease (n)

n14511491

type n
lex_filenum 26
def a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s
def characterized by severe neurological degeneration
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Hypernym mercury poisoning
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Hyponym mercury poisoning

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