Minamata Bay
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Minamata Bay — Map of Minamata Bay and the Chisso factory Minamata is a small factory town. Minamata Bay is a bay on the west coast of Kyūshū island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.[1] The bay is part of the large … Wikipedia
Minamata disease — Classification and external resources The crippled hand of a Minamata disease victim ICD 10 T56.1 … Wikipedia
Minamata disease compensation agreements of 1959 — Main article: Minamata disease The Minamata disease compensation agreements of 1959 were agreed between the polluting Chisso company and representative groups of fishermen and Minamata disease patients who had been affected by mercury pollution.… … Wikipedia
Minamata disease — A disorder caused by methyl mercury poisoning that was first described in the inhabitants of Minamata Bay, Japan and resulted from their eating fish contaminated with mercury industrial waste. The disease is characterized by peripheral sensory… … Medical dictionary
Minamata — /mɪnəˈmatə/ (say minuh mahtuh) noun a city in south western Japan, on a bay on the west coast of Kyushu island; industrial pollution of the bay by chemical wastewater from the 1930s onwards led to cases of severe mercury poisoning known as… …
Minamata — ▪ Japan city, Kumamoto ken (prefecture), southeastern Kyushu, Japan, on Yatsushiro Bay. A company town of the Nippon Chisso Hiryo Company, its main products are chemical fertilizer, carbide, and vinyl chloride. Minamata was traditionally a… … Universalium
Minamata disease — /min euh mah teuh/, Pathol. a severe form of mercury poisoning, characterized by neurological degeneration. [after Minamata Bay, Japan, where fish containing alkyl mercury compounds caused the disease in those who ate them during the period 1953… … Universalium
Minamata disease — Min•a•ma′ta disease [[t]ˌmɪn əˈmɑ tə[/t]] n. pat a severe form of mercury poisoning characterized by neurological degeneration • Etymology: after Minamata Bay, Japan, source of fish poisoning in 1953–58 … From formal English to slang
Minamata disease — noun 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 • Hypernyms: ↑mercury poisoning … Useful english dictionary
Minamata, Kumamoto — Minamata 水俣市 City … Wikipedia
