English Explanatory Dictionary

Hirschsprung's disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Congenital aganglionic megacolon, a disorder in which the bowel is obstructed by an aganglionic section of bowel and the colon becomes enlarged.

Word forms

Hirschsprung's disease

Etymology

After Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916), Danish physician who first described it.

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