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MALADIE MINAMATA [1 record]

Record 1 2001-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

A severe neurological disorder usually characterized by peripheral and circumoral paresthesia, ataxia, dysarthria, and loss of peripheral vision, resulting from poisoning by organic mercury, and leading to severe permanent neurological and mental disabilities or death.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
CONT

La maladie de Minamata est le nom donné à une intoxication par les composés mercuriels observée pour la première fois dans le début des années 1950 au Japon près de la ville de Minamata, dans l'île de Kyushu, et caractérisée principalement par des atteintes neurologiques le plus souvent gravissimes (paralysie, cécité, troubles psychiques) et mortelles.

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