Chinese restaurant syndrome

Definitions of Chinese restaurant syndrome
  1. noun
    headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate
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    type of:
    syndrome
    a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
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