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flash burn

flash burn noun: a skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.

Noun

flash burn (countable and uncountable, plural flash burns)

  1. A skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.
    • 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.1946, The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Manhattan Engineer District, page 20
    • 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.2008, Electrical safety-related Work Practices, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 104

Examples of flash burn in a sentence

  • 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.1944, Park, Charles E., Report on Project no. T-4, Armored Medical Research Laboratory, page 14
  • 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.1952, Cornell Conferences On Therapy, The MacMillan Company, page 204:
  • 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.1966, L. Wayne Davis, William L. Baker, and Donald L. Summers, Nuclear Papers, The Dikewood Corporation, page 19

Forms of flash burn

pluralflash burns
alternative formflash-burn
alternative formflashburn

Questions about flash burn

What does flash burn mean?
Flash burn means a skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.
How do you use flash burn in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is flash burn?
Flash burn is a noun.
What is the plural of flash burn?
The plural of flash burn is flash burns.

Words near flash burn in the dictionary

  1. flash bang
  2. flash bangs
  3. flash boiler
  4. flash boilers
  5. flash bomb
  6. flash burn
  7. flash burner
  8. flash burners
  9. flash burns
  10. flash card
  11. flash cards

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