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Chemically-Induced Disorders > Poisoning > Heavy Metal Poisoning > Mercury Poisoning > Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System
Chemically-Induced Disorders > Poisoning > Neurotoxicity Syndromes > Heavy Metal Poisoning, Nervous System > Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System
Nervous System Diseases > Neurotoxicity Syndromes > Heavy Metal Poisoning, Nervous System > Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System

Preferred term

Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Mercurialism, Nervous System
  • Mercurialism, Neurologic
  • Mercury Induced Nervous System Diseases
  • Mercury-Induced Nervous System Diseases
  • Mercury Neurotoxicity Syndrome
  • Mercury Neurotoxicity Syndromes
  • Mercury Poisoning, Neurologic
  • Nervous System Diseases, Mercury Induced
  • Nervous System Diseases, Mercury-Induced
  • Nervous System Mercurialism
  • Nervous System Poisoning, Mercury
  • Neurologic Mercurialism
  • Neurologic Mercury Poisoning
  • Neurotoxicity Syndrome, Mercury
  • Neurotoxicity Syndromes, Mercury
  • Poisoning, Mercury, Nervous System
  • Poisoning, Mercury, Neurologic
  • Poisoning, Neurologic Mercury
  • Syndrome, Mercury Neurotoxicity
  • Syndromes, Mercury Neurotoxicity
  • System Mercurialism, Nervous

Note

  • coord IM with specific mercury cpd (IM) if given

Scope note

  • Neurologic disorders associated with exposure to inorganic and organic forms of MERCURY. Acute intoxication may be associated with gastrointestinal disturbances, mental status changes, and PARAPARESIS. Chronic exposure to inorganic mercury usually occurs in industrial workers, and manifests as mental confusion, prominent behavioral changes (including psychosis), DYSKINESIAS, and NEURITIS. Alkyl mercury poisoning may occur through ingestion of contaminated seafood or grain, and its characteristic features include POLYNEUROPATHY; ATAXIA; vision loss; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; and DEAFNESS. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1997, Ch20, pp10-15)

History note

  • 2000; for MINAMATA DISEASE use MERCURY POISONING 1977-1999

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020262

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