necrotic enteritis

noun

: 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)