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Disease, Hirschsprung(health)
Hirschsprung's disease(dictionary)
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Wild West (iou) and Disease, Hirschsprung (health)


Wild West (iou)



Wild West noun phr. M19.
[from WILD adjective + WEST noun2.]
The western part of the US during its lawless frontier period. M19.
attrib.: A. Nicol She removed the Wild West novels and romance magazines.
transf. & fig. Any place or area compared to the N. American Wild West, esp. with regard to its lawlessness. L19.
Comb.: Wild West show a circus or fairground Entertainment depicting cowboys and N. American Indians with displays of riding, shooting, etc.
wild western adjective & noun (a) adjective characteristic of or resembling the Wild West; (b) noun a Film about the Wild West; a western: M19.
Wild Westerner noun M20.

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.)