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MERCURY POISONING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mercury poisoning mean?
• MERCURY POISONING (noun)
The noun MERCURY POISONING has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: MERCURY POISONING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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