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flash burn

[′flash ‚bərn]

(medicine)

Tissue injury resulting from exposure to high-intensity radiant heat.

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By doing so you are at risk of getting serious flash burns on your face due to the vapors.

The flask still has the dent and the flash burns." Frank, who had married sweetheart Eva Griffiths the previous year, was invalided home and spent two months at the Empress Eugenie hospital in Farnborough, where, it appears, the tale of his near miss must have intrigued the elderly widow of Emperor Napoleon III of France, because among the officer's belongings returned to his family after his death was a second silver flask emblazoned with her imperial crest.

Daughter's precious book of memories of war hero dad she never knew; In the week a memorial to the Pals is unveiled, Catherine Jones discovers the stories of two city soldiers who will never be forgotten

Two people suffered flash burns while the others had minor injuries, including wounds from broken glass and splinters, the New York television station reported.

Nyack College Explosion: 7 Injured After Apparent Gas Blast Rocks New York School

Police say the offenders would have suffered flash burns when they tried to break into premises in Dock Road, Connah's Quay and cut through a cable which supplied 2,500 homes.

Cable thieves leave 2,500 without power

Richard Hopwood suffered 40% flash burns when a gas explosion tore apart his flat in Caerleon Close, St Mellons, on March 28.

I'M BLESSED TO STILL BE ALIVE; Gas blast victim reveals how he feels lucky that he was able to survive explosion that destroyed home and left him in hospital

"The mechanism is very similar to welding flash burns, which everyone knows are very painful.

Stay clear of vodka eyeballing or risk going blind, teens warned

As he tried to set fire to the car it exploded, flinging him 20ft into the air and leaving him with flash burns to his hands, face and eyes.

Huge blow for stupid arsonist; Explosion as man torched car

These fall into two categories, either direct burn as a result of conduction through metallic retractors or flash burns secondary to ignition of alcoholic skin preparations [4,5].

Inadvertent diathermy self-injury: a cautionary tale

His co-pilot, believed to be in his 30s, was treated for minor flash burns and a back injury and was taken to Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.

Liverpool-based plane in donor organ crash landing

"A second man was treated at the scene for flash burns to his body and a back injury.

Airport miracale; How did two men and transplant organ survive THIS?: Courage of pilot who fought blaze to save vital liver

In humans, aloe has been reported to accelerate healing from deep scrapes, frostbite, flash burns of the conjunctiva, and even canker sores [26,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51].

Aloe vera chemicals and usages

The second most common cause was flame and flash burns which, combined, affected 19/66 patients.