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- noun A syndrome associated with consumption of the
westernized version ofChinese food , characterized by various symptoms such as burning and tingling sensations, rapid heartbeat, and drowsiness, and tentatively ascribed tomonosodium glutamate in the food.
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- noun headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate
Etymologies
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Coined by Robert Ho Man Kwok in a 1968 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
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alexz commented on the word Chinese restaurant syndrome
It appears that Wiktionary and Wordnet have the same 'problem' definition that Webster has. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51139005
January 17, 2020