mercury poisoning

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 114534836)
    is a type of: intoxication, poisoning, toxic condition - the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance
    subtypes: 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

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