"flash burn" meaning in All languages combined

See flash burn on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: flash burns [plural], flash-burn [alternative], flashburn [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} flash burn (countable and uncountable, plural flash burns)
  1. A skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-flash_burn-en-noun-SA52q98R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1946, The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Manhattan Engineer District, page 20",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Electrical safety-related Work Practices, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 104",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, Park, Charles E., Report on Project no. T-4, Armored Medical Research Laboratory, page 14",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Cornell Conferences On Therapy, The MacMillan Company, page 204",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, L. Wayne Davis, William L. Baker, and Donald L. Summers, Nuclear Papers, The Dikewood Corporation, page 19",
          "text": "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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        },
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        },
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        },
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