chinese restaurant syndrome

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English - Turkish
(Tıp) çin restoranı sendromu
English - English
A syndrome associated with consumption of the westernized version of Chinese food, characterized by various symptoms such as burning and tingling sensations, rapid heartbeat, and drowsiness, and tentatively ascribed to monosodium glutamate in the food
A group of symptoms, including dizziness, facial pressure, sweating, and headache, that may occur after the ingestion of food containing large amounts of monosodium glutamate
headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate
chinese restaurant syndrome

    Hyphenation

    Chin·ese res·tau·rant syn·drome

    Turkish pronunciation

    çayniz restıränt sîndrōm

    Pronunciation

    /ʧīˈnēz ˈrestərˌänt ˈsənˌdrōm/ /ʧaɪˈniːz ˈrɛstɜrˌɑːnt ˈsɪnˌdroʊm/

    Etymology

    () Coined by Robert Ho Man Kwok in a 1968 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
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