mercury poisoning
Findings
No curated finding names mercury poisoning yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Mercury poisoning is caused mainly through ingestion or inhalation of any of the 3 forms of mercury, elemental, organic, and inorganic. Exposure to elemental mercury affects the pulmonary (inhalation of mercury vapors causes coughing, chills, fever, shortness of breath), dermatological (mild swelling, vesiculation, scaling, irritation, urticaria, erythema and allergic contact dermatitis accompanied by pain), and peripheral and central nervous (CNS) systems (depression, paranoia, extreme irritability, hallucinations, inability to concentrate, memory loss, hands, head, lips, tongue, jaw and eyelids tremors, weight loss, perpetually low body temperature, drowsiness, headaches, insomnia, fatigue). Exposure to inorganic mercury generally causes development of a metallic taste, local oropharyngeal pain, nausea, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, colic abdominal pain, renal dysfunction and, neurologic abnormalities; while that to organic mercury can lead to delayed neurotoxicity.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0018020), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
21 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Abnormal cerebral white matter morphologyHPOHP:0002500
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Acute kidney injuryHPOHP:0001919
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- AnorexiaHPOHP:0002039
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- ConfusionHPOHP:0001289
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- DyspneaHPOHP:0002094
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- DystoniaHPO
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: mercury poisoning
- Also called
- hydrargyriamercurialismMercury intoxication