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NEC

Abbreviation for:
necrotising enterocolitis
necrosis
neuroendocrine carcinoma
neuroendocrine cell
nonesterified cholesterol
not elsewhere classified
Nursing Ethics Committee

NEC

Symbol for

1. Necrotizing enterocolitis, see there.

2. Nonesterified cholesterol.

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)

A disorder in newborns caused by bacterial or viral invasion of vulnerable intestinal tissues.

Mentioned in: Enterobacterial Infections, Prematurity

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The NEC Research Institute is also involved in internet meta-search engines, scalable cluster computing, distributed languages and systems and quantum cryptography.

NEC Scientist Reveals Global Data Storage Prototype

Spending time in the neurophysics lab at the NEC Research Institute near Princeton, N.J., can make one just a little giddy.

Touching the right nerve

In the laser experiment by Lijun Wang of NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., and his colleagues, the superluminal pulse, which was preceded by a "pump" pulse to excite the amplifier, has a negative velocity.

Light pulses flout sacrosanct speed limit

Yianilos of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., and his collaborators have now unveiled the prototype of such a dispersed-data-storage system for the Internet.

Data storage on a global scale

Lee Giles of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., report in the April 3 Science.

Web searches fall short

Logistello was developed by Michael Buro, now at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J.