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necrotizing enterocolitis

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necrotizing enterocolitis

noun
an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow 
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necrotizing enterocolitis n.
Extensive ulceration and necrosis of the ileum and colon in premature infants in the neonatal period.

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