NOUN
- 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
How To Use mercury poisoning In A Sentence
- Reports of mercury poisoning from beauty creams containing calomel, or mercurous chloride, also surface regularly.
- Reports of mercury poisoning from beauty creams containing calomel, or mercurous chloride, also surface regularly.
- Inorganic mercury poisoning historically has been linked to Roman slaves, who were exposed to mercury vapor while mining in Spain, and to Venetian mirror makers and the hatters of London.
- Several cases of mercury poisoning have been recorded in the literature.
- Diagnostic criteria and principle of treatment for chronic methyl? mercury poisoning caused by water pollution.
- The same journal identified a compact fluorescent lightbulb factory in Anyang, eastern China, where 35% of workers suffered mercury poisoning, and industrial discharge containing the toxin went straight into the water supply. 'Green' light bulbs poisoning the Chinese...
- He lost his hair, wrote with a trembling hand and later became withdrawn and unsociable - mercury poisoning can do this to you.
