necrotizing enterocolitis

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsNEC

   Broaderinflammatory disease

Questions about necrotizing enterocolitis

What does necrotizing enterocolitis mean?

necrotizing enterocolitis means "an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow".

What is another word for necrotizing enterocolitis?

Close synonyms include NEC. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is necrotizing enterocolitis a common word?

necrotizing enterocolitis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.