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Abstract
Injuries to tissues caused by contact with heat, steam, chemicals (BURNS, CHEMICAL), electricity (BURNS, ELECTRIC), or the like.
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- Burn
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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general or unspecified; prefer specifics; "thermal injury"; burn shock: coordinate with SHOCK, TRAUMATIC
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Burns. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002056. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002056
- Burns. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn
- Burns. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170518