flash burn

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Noun

flash burn (countable and uncountable, plural flash burns)

  1. A skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.
    • 1946, The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Manhattan Engineer District, page 20
      The greatest number of radiation injuries was probably due to the ultra-violet rays which have a wave length slightly shorter than visible light and which caused flash burn comparable to severe sunburn.
    • 2008, Electrical safety-related Work Practices, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 104
      NFPA 70E’s safety-related work practices and procedures are intended to protect employees from electric shock, arc flash burn, thermal burn, or blast caused by contact or equipment failure.
    • 1944, Park, Charles E., Report on Project no. T-4, Armored Medical Research Laboratory, page 14
      The apparent discrepancy of the tests is probably due to the short duration of the flame, and indicates that — serious flash burn of the skin is unlikely.
    • 1952, Cornell Conferences On Therapy, The MacMillan Company, page 204
      If you spray a second degree flash burn with ethyl chloride for a minute in the same interrupted fashion as for muscle pain, there probably won’t be any more pain from that burn.
    • 1966, L. Wayne Davis, William L. Baker, and Donald L. Summers, Nuclear Papers, The Dikewood Corporation, page 19
      A inoderate flash burn is defined to be a burn of second degree over less than 10 percerit of die skin area, and a severe burn is defined to.
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