イタイイタイ病びょう

noun

itai-itai disease; mass cadmium poisoning

Historical disease caused by cadmium poisoning from industrial waste in Toyama Prefecture, starting in the 1910s. The name comes from the severe pain it caused.

See also: 痛い

• イタイイタイ病びょうは四よん大だい公こう害がい病びょうの一ひとつです。

  Itai-itai disease is one of the four major pollution-related diseases.

• イタイイタイ病びょうの原げん因いんはカドミウム汚お染せんでした。

  The cause of itai-itai disease was cadmium contamination.