chinese restaurant syndrome

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   headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate

   Broadersyndrome

Questions about chinese restaurant syndrome

What does chinese restaurant syndrome mean?

chinese restaurant syndrome means "headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate".

Is chinese restaurant syndrome a common word?

chinese restaurant syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.