itai-itain.
/ˈɪtʌɪˈɪtʌɪ/ A disease, first reported in Japan in 1955, caused by the ingestion of cadmium and characterized by severe pain particularly in the back.
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itai-itai1969
1969 Keio Jrnl. Med. (Tokyo) 18 181 (title) Causation of ouch-ouch disease (Itai-Itai byō).
1970 Biol. Abstr. 51 4256/1 Rice straw samples used were 2 kinds of stubble grown in the ‘Itai-itai’ disease epidemic district.
1973 Biol. Conservation V. 143 Itai-itai originated in the prefectures of Toyama and Gumma, in north-western Japan. The cause of the affliction, however, is world-wide: rivers poisoned by effluence from smelters.
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