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- noun medicine
Congenital aganglionic megacolon , a disorder in which thebowel is obstructed by an aganglionic section of bowel and thecolon becomes enlarged.
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- noun congenital condition in which the colon does not have the normal network of nerves; there is little urge to defecate so the feces accumulate and cause megacolon
Etymologies
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After Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916), Danish physician who first described it.
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June 24, 2010