CHINESE RESTAURANT SYNDROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chinese restaurant syndrome mean? 

• CHINESE RESTAURANT SYNDROME (noun)
  The noun CHINESE RESTAURANT SYNDROME has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CHINESE RESTAURANT SYNDROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINESE RESTAURANT SYNDROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Chinese restaurant syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)