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Hirschsprung|ˈhɪəʃprʊŋ|
The name of Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916), Danish physician, used in the possessive in Hirschsprung's disease, congenital enlargement of the colon, occurring esp. in boys, spec. such enlargement due to the absence of the ganglion cells of a segment of the lower colon or rectum.
1900Dorland Med. Dict. 208/2 Hirschsprung's d[isease], congenital hypertrophic dilatation of the colon. 1908Practitioner Sept. 456 An example of idiopathic dilatation of the colon, or—as it is called in Germany—Hirschsprung's disease, is recorded by Wagner. 1949Lancet 1 Jan. 10/2 A considerable proportion of cases of megacolon (not being Hirschsprung's disease) remain in the residual ‘idiopathic’ group. 1966B. C. Morson in Wright & Symmers Syst. Path. I. xvii. 549/1 Idiopathic megacolon..has to be distinguished from congenital megacolon Hirschsprung's disease), in which there is a characteristic underlying histological defect. 1968F. A. Jones et al. Clin. Gastroenterol. (ed. 2) iv. 121 Confusion later arose because the term Hirschsprung's disease was applied to any mega⁓colon. |