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necrotizing enterocolitis

nec·ro·tiz·ing en·ter·o·co·li·tis


noun 
Definition:
 
dead-tissue intestinal disorder: a disorder of premature babies and sometimes full-term babies in which patches of dead tissue occur in the small or large intestine as a result of severe bacterial infection

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