second-degree burn

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   burn causing blisters on the skin and superficial destruction of the dermis

   Broaderburn

Questions about second-degree burn

What does second-degree burn mean?

second-degree burn means "burn causing blisters on the skin and superficial destruction of the dermis".

Is second-degree burn a common word?

second-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.