flash burn
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flash burn
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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King sustained a flash burn in his left eye, requiring a trip to an ophthalmologist and a course of eye drops.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2017
The supervisor who was standing with him, and came to his aid, also sustained a flash burn, but is now back on the job, he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
Dr. Mitchell Sams of the University of Alabama in Birmingham recalls one patient with a second-degree "flash burn all over" his body.
From Time Magazine Archive
I felt it rub up against my bare skin and had to turn my face away from the blinding light that came next—a flash burn that erased anything and everything that stood in its way.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
These are generally differentiated as flame or fire burn and so-called flash burn.
From The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District
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