MERCURY POISONING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mercury poisoning" is a kind of...):

intoxication; poisoning; toxic condition (the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mercury poisoning"):

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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