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methylmercury
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methylmercury
Dimethyl mercury Toxicology An inorganic mercury industrial pollutant; it is concentrated up the food chain, teratogenic and causes severe CNS defects in children whose mothers consumed MM-contaminated seafood while pregnant. See Mercury, Minamata disease.
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