Hirschsprungn.
/ˈhɪəʃprʊŋ/ Hirschsprung's disease n. 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.
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cholera1601
cœliac1661
cœliac passion or flux1662
bota1722
mucocele1897
Hirschsprung's disease1900
paraproctitis1900
peptic ulcer1900
megacolon1906
outpouching1909
typhlatony1913
polyposis1914
argentaffinoma1934
irritable bowel syndrome1943
Meckel's diverticulum1946
Meckel's diverticulitis1954
1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 208/2 Hirschsprung's d[isease], congenital hypertrophic dilatation of the colon.
1908 Practitioner Sept. 456 An example of idiopathic dilatation of the colon, or—as it is called in Germany—Hirschsprung's disease, is recorded by Wagner.
1949 Lancet 1 Jan. 10/2 A considerable proportion of cases of megacolon (not being Hirschsprung's disease) remain in the residual ‘idiopathic’ group.
1966 B. C. Morson in Wright & Symmers Systemic 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.
1968 F. 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.
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