- (US) IPA(key): /dɹaɪ ˈæbˌsɛs/, /dɹaɪ ˈæbˌsɪs/
dry abscess (plural dry abscesses)
- (pathology) An abscess that fails to point or break.
- Thomas, Clayton L., editor (1940), Taber's Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 5th edition, Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company, published 1993, →ISBN, page 9