See Also: Hirschsprung's disease(medicine)
Disease, Hirschsprung(health)
Hirschsprung's disease(health)
disease, Hirschsprung's(medicine)
Hirschsprung's disease(dictionary)
Hirschsprung, Harald(medicine)
Dells Area Health Center Avera Health(health)
Divine Providence Health Center Avera Health(health)
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Disease, Hirschsprung (health)


A congenital abnormality (birth defect) of the bowel in which there is absence of the ganglia (nerves) in the wall of the bowel. Nerves are missing starting at the anus and extending a variable distance up the bowel. This results in megacolon (massive enlargement of the bowel) above the point where the nerves are missing. (The nerves are needed to assist in the natural movement of the muscles in the lining of our bowels which move bowel contents through.)