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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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  1. n. a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated">mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s; characterized by severe neurological degeneration