flash burn

plural flash burns · alternative flash-burn · alternative flashburn

1. countableuncountableA skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.

   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

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   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

   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