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English
Etymology
After Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916), Danish physician who first described it.
Noun
Hirschsprung's disease (uncountable)
- (medicine) Congenital aganglionic megacolon, a disorder in which the bowel is obstructed by an aganglionic section of bowel and the colon becomes enlarged.
Translations
congenital aganglionic megacolon