(n)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
[よんだいこうがいびょう, yondaikougaibyou](n) (See 水俣病, 第二水俣病, 四日市ぜんそく, イタイイタイ病) the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan[Add to Longdo]