| Minamata d. |
a severe neurologic disorder usually characterized by peripheral and circumoral paresthesia, ataxia, dysarthria, and loss of peripheral vision, and leading to severe permanent neurologic and mental disabilities or death; it is caused by alkyl mercury poisoning and was prevalent between 1953 and 1958 among those who ate seafood from a bay in Japan that was polluted with alkyl mercury compounds.
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| Minamata disease |
see under disease.
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