mercurialismn.
/məːˈkjʊərɪəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /mərˈkjʊriəˌlɪzəm/ Medicine.
Poisoning caused by mercury or a compound of mercury.
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hydrargyrosis1753
hydrargyria1810
mercurialism1829
acrodynia1830
hydrargyriasis1854
mercurialization1883
pink disease1921
1829 R. Christison Treat. Poisons xii. 308 A surgeon who had..all the symptoms of mercurialism eight years after he had ceased to take mercury.
1862 Year-bk. Med. 1861 (New Sydenham Soc.) 319 An investigation of Constitutional Mercurialism.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 596 It must be used with caution so as to avoid any symptoms of mercurialism.
1941 P. A. Neal et al. (title) Mercurialism and its control in the felt-hat industry.
1972 Science 9 June 1075/2 The use of diuretics is also not without risk and has led to many fatal cases of ‘mercurialism’.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. vi. 14/2 The tremor is responsible for the characteristic handwriting in chronic mercurialism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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