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NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does necrotizing enterocolitis mean? 

NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS (noun)
  The noun NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS has 1 sense:

1. an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may followplay

  Familiarity information: NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

NEC; necrotizing enterocolitis

Hypernyms ("necrotizing enterocolitis" is a kind of...):

inflammatory disease (a disease characterized by inflammation)


 Context examples 


C. sakazakii is pathogenic, being the causative agent of meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis, and is associated with tainted powdered infant formulas.

(Cronobacter sakazakii, NCI Thesaurus)



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