NEC
Necrotizing enterocolitis. A condition characterized by variable injury or damage to the intestinal tract, causing death of intestinal tissue. The condition most often occurs in premature newborns, but it may also occur in term or near-term infants. Signs and symptoms may include abdominal distension, bloody stools, vomiting bile-stained fluid, and pneumatosis intestinalis (gas in the bowel wall) identified on abdominal x-ray.
Credit: GARD (https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/9767/disease)
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