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Megacolon (medical condition): Extreme bowel distention.
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Megacolon: Dilation and sometimes lengthening of the colon.
Megacolon: A condition of extreme dilation of the colon. SYN: giant colon.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Megacolon: an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung's disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate).
Source: WordNet 2.1
Megacolon: Dilatation of the COLON, often to alarming dimensions. There are various types of megacolon including congenital megacolon in HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE, idiopathic megacolon in CONSTIPATION, and TOXIC MEGACOLON.
Source: Diseases Database
Megacolon: Dilatation of the COLON, often to alarming dimensions. There are various types of megacolon including congenital megacolon in HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE, idiopathic megacolon in CONSTIPATION, and TOXIC MEGACOLON.
Source: MeSH 2007
Megacolon (medical condition): See Megacolon (disease information).
»Introduction: Megacolon
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»Causes of Megacolon
»Treatments for Megacolon
Megacolon: Megacolon is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Megacolon (symptom): Dilatation and hypertrophy of the colon.
Megacolon (symptom): See Megacolon (symptom information).
These medical disease topics may be related to Megacolon:
Source: Diseases Database
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - WordNet 2.1
The following list attempts to classify Megacolon into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: WordNet 2.1
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