toxic megacolon
MONDO:0002105Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names toxic megacolon yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
An acute form of megacolon, severe pathological dilatation of the colon. It is associated with clinical conditions such as ulcerative colitis; crohn disease; amebic dysentery; or clostridium enterocolitis.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0002105), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of