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nerveless (iou) and Minamata disease (sh)


nerveless (iou)



nerveless adjective. L17.
[from NERVE noun + -LESS.]
Lacking courage or vigour; weak, incapable of effort, lifeless. L17.
Liverpool Daily Post A nerveless diplomatist who only has to be menaced and he will yield. D. Lodge Vic's last action is normally to detach a book from Marjorie's nerveless fingers.
b. Of literary or artistic style: diffuse, insipid. M18.
Blackwood's Magazine Lord Byron retains the same nerveless and pointless kind of blank verse.
Anatomy, Botany, & Zoology. Having no nerves or nervures. L18.
Confident; not nervous. L20.
nervelessly adverb M19.
nervelessness noun M19.

Minamata disease (sh)




Disease first identified in 1956 in Minamata, Japan.

A fishing port, Minamata was also the Home of Nippon Chisso Hiryo Co., a manufacturer of chemical fertilizer, carbide, and vinyl chloride. Methyl mercury discharged from the factory contaminated fish and shellfish, which in turn caused illness in the local inhabitants who consumed them and birth defects in their children. The sometimes fatal disease was the first whose cause was recognized as industrial pollution of seawater. It aroused worldwide concern and stimulated the development of the environmental movement.