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necrotic enteritis

noun

Medical Definition of NECROTIC ENTERITIS

:  either of two often fatal infectious diseases marked especially by intestinal inflammation and necrosis and by diarrhea: a :  one affecting young swine and caused by a bacterium of the genus Salmonella (S. choleraesuis)—called also necro b :  one affecting poultry and especially young chickens and turkeys and caused by a bacterium of the genus Clostridium (C. perfringens)

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