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adj. - Not characterized by or accompanied by a discharge of pus.

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  • The organ is much shrunken and presents rough, uneven edges, with carbuncular non-suppurative sores.
  • Other non-suppurative diseases of the middle ear are whooping cough, scrofula, exposure and cold, disease of the throat, thickening of eardrum, croup, etc.
  • It would be well to state here a cursory examination of the mouth will not discover root abscesses any more than such examination will discover non-suppurative sinus...
  • Of diseases of the middle ear, 72 per cent are of suppurative character, often with inflammation or abscess, and 28 per cent non-suppurative, or rather catarrhal in...
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