How to Use enterocolitis in a Sentence

enterocolitis

noun
Definition of enterocolitisnext
  • Patients also have a high risk of getting enterocolitis, or inflammation of the colon and the small intestine.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 27 June 2017
  • Human milk lowers the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, an intestinal disease that is a leading cause of death in N.I.C.U.s.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Some parents have claimed the companies did not adequately warn parents of the potential for those products to cause necrotizing enterocolitis in premature babies, Abrams said.
    — Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 15 July 2022
  • That is sometimes a sign of an inflammatory condition of the intestines, called necrotizing enterocolitis or NEC, that’s a leading cause of hospital deaths among extremely preterm babies.
    — Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Donor milk has been shown to help protect babies against necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a medical condition that preemies are especially susceptible to, in which bacteria invade portions of the intestines and can destroy the wall of the bowel.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz Africa, 13 Aug. 2019
  • These babies had advanced cases of necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC, that clinician said.
    — Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Breastmilk has been shown to considerably reduce the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, a gut infection that mainly affects premature babies and has a high mortality rate.
    — Anna Claire Vollers, AL.com, 19 July 2017
  • Studies have shown that human milk can also protect against necrotizing enterocolitis, a disease that causes serious damage to babies’ intestines.
    — Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Immune-boosting factors of breast milk also work to ward off development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating intestinal disorder that affects 12 percent of premature babies and claims the lives of one in four.
    — Joan Kurkowski-Gillen photos By Glen E. Elllman, star-telegram.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • But most of that milk is distributed through hospitals for preterm babies, to help lower the risk of serious health complications like necrotizing enterocolitis — a dangerous intestinal disorder.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • That’s because the smallest infants are at risk for a devastating digestive complication called necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.
    — Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • The exosome research Zhou and Chen stole can be used to develop treatments for a variety of illnesses, including necrotizing enterocolitis (a condition found in premature babies), liver cancer, and liver fibrosis.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Ginhoux and his colleagues also note that high levels of TNF-alpha are common in some types of miscarriage, gestational diabetes, and necrotizing enterocolitis, an out-of-control immune reaction that often afflicts premature infants.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2017
  • In a seminal 2009 study in Pediatrics, for example, Greenberg's colleague Michael Cotten showed that each additional day of antibiotics significantly increased the odds that a preemie would develop necrotizing enterocolitis or die.
    — Marla Broadfoot, Science | AAAS, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Every year, about 260 of the tiniest premature babies in California hospitals develop an often-fatal bowel disease known as necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • One example is necrotizing enterocolitis, a common intestinal condition among premature infants that can lead to life-threatening infections.
    — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The network also showed researchers previously unknown links between maternal conditions and newborn risk — for example, chronic illness in mothers may lead to greater risk of newborns developing necrotizing enterocolitis, a serious GI condition.
    — Lizzy Lawrence Reprints, STAT, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Also, the bacteria has been associated with severe intestinal infection (necrotizing enterocolitis) and blood poisoning (sepsis), especially in newborns.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 23 June 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'enterocolitis.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: