Term: minamata disease: 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
Candidate hypernym: mercury poisoning: a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury; acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death → 1
Candidate hypernym: sphaerocarpales: small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales → 0
Candidate hypernym: spam: a canned meat made largely from pork → 0
Candidate hypernym: norgestrel: synthetic progestin used in oral contraceptives → 0
Candidate hypernym: adaptability: the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances → 0
Candidate hypernym: thermogravimetry: the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances → 0
Candidate hypernym: seizure: the taking possession of something by legal process → 0
Candidate hypernym: acromion: the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade → 0
Candidate hypernym: imaret: a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey → 0
Candidate hypernym: mouthpiece: an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks → 0
Candidate hypernym: skullcap: a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised → 0