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  2. Thermal burn - Wikipedia

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    A thermal burn is a type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water, steam, hot cooking oil, fire, and hot objects. Scalds are the most common type of thermal burn suffered by children, but for adults thermal burns are most commonly caused by fire. [ 2 ]

  3. Burn - Wikipedia

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    Burns that affect only the superficial skin layers are known as superficial or first-degree burns. [2] [11] They appear red without blisters, and pain typically lasts around three days. [2] [11] When the injury extends into some of the underlying skin layer, it is a partial-thickness or second-degree burn. [2]

  4. Scalding - Wikipedia

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    Scalding is a form of thermal burn resulting from heated fluids such as boiling water or steam. Most scalds are considered first- or second-degree burns, but third-degree burns can result, especially with prolonged contact. The term is from the Latin word calidus, meaning hot. [1]

  5. Thermal trauma - Wikipedia

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    Thermal trauma is any burn-related injury that can potentially lead to serious outcomes. There are various causes of thermal trauma, including fire, radiant heat, radiation, chemical, or electrical contact, [1] that can affect a person in many ways based on factors from anatomical and physiological factors. Depending on the severity of the ...

  6. Radiation burn - Wikipedia

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    A radiation burn is a damage to the skin or other biological tissue and organs as an effect of radiation.The radiation types of greatest concern are thermal radiation, radio frequency energy, ultraviolet light and ionizing radiation.

  7. Flash burn - Wikipedia

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    Flash burn is any burn injury caused by intense flashes of light, high voltage electric current, [1] or strong thermal radiation. [2] These may originate from, for example, a sufficiently large BLEVE, a thermobaric weapon explosion or a nuclear blast of sufficient magnitude. Damage to the eye(s) caused by ultraviolet rays is known as ...

  8. Effects of nuclear explosions on human health - Wikipedia

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    Beta burns would likely be all over the body if there was contact with fallout after the explosion, unlike thermal burns, which are only ever on one side of the body, as heat radiation infrared naturally does not penetrate the human body. In addition, the pattern on her clothing has been burnt into the skin by the thermal radiation.

  9. Microwave burn - Wikipedia

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    Microwave burns are burn injuries caused by thermal effects of microwave radiation absorbed in a living organism.. In comparison with radiation burns caused by ionizing radiation, where the dominant mechanism of tissue damage is internal cell damage caused by free radicals, the type of burn caused by microwave radiation is by heat—health effects colloquially associated with the term ...