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Minimata disease[‚min·ē′mäd·ə di‚zēz] (medicine) A disorder resulting from methyl mercury poisoning, which occurred in epidemic proportions in 1956 in Minimata Bay, a Japanese coastal town, where the inhabitants ate fish contaminated by industrial pollution; the most obvious symptoms are tremors and involuntary movements. Minimata disease A disease caused by consumption of fish and shellfish contaminated with organic methylmercury—inorganic mercury, a major teratogen discharged into nearby rivers by industrial plants that produce acetaldehyde, using mercury as a catalystMinimata disease An epidemic of neurological disorders that occurred in Minimata, Japan, in 1953–56, and was eventually shown to be caused by MERCURY POISONING from contact with the effluent from a PVC factory. |