first-degree burn

1. 1.

   burn causing redness of the skin surface

   Broaderburn

   Narrowersunburn

Questions about first-degree burn

What does first-degree burn mean?

first-degree burn means "burn causing redness of the skin surface".

Is first-degree burn a common word?

first-degree burn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.