Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Poisoning caused by mercury or a compound containing mercury.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The pathological condition produced by the use of mercury.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) The syndrome produced by poisoning due to exposure to mercury, it fumes, or its compounds;
mercury poisoning . Such exposure may occur in mining or smelting, or in using mercurial compounds.
Examples
“Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" Erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia.”
THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings
“Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism ...”
“[45] But, alas, with the mercurialism of temperament in which he has thought proper to indulge when only Negroes and Europeans not of”
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“the most accurate research that could be done on amalgam would be to require all dentists who use it to place a generous research amount in their own mouths. then , with no measurable increases in their body burden of mercury, we can debate and ponder why they sometimes run their spouses over with their mercedes in fits of rage, a symptom associated with mercurialism.”
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