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单词 Minamata disease
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Minamata disease /mi-nə-mäˈtə di-zēzˈ/

noun

A disease caused by eating fish contaminated by industrial waste containing mercury compounds, and characterized by a usu permanent condition involving impairment of speech and sight, muscular weakness, paralysis, etc, and sometimes coma or death

ORIGIN: Minamata, town in Japan where the disease was first recognized
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