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Minamata disease (medicine) and nine (oh)


Minamata disease (medicine)


Minamata disease


A neurologic disorder caused by methyl mercury intoxication; first described in the inhabitants of Minamata Bay, Japan, resulting from their eating fish contaminated with mercury industrial waste. Characterised by peripheral sensory loss, tremors, dysarthria, ataxia, and both hearing and visual loss.


nine (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: nigon]
the number 9
::He's only been in this job for nine months.
::We open at nine (=nine o'clock) .
::Kay was taught by her mother till she was nine (=nine years old) .
nine times out of ten
almost always
::Nine times out of ten we can solve the problem over the phone.
a nine days' wonder
a thing or event that makes people very excited for a short time
have nine lives
to make lucky escapes from dangerous situations
-see also dressed up to the nines at dressed (4), be on cloud nine at cloud 1 (5)