burn victims
Those with scorches
Burn victims are people who have suffered burns, typically severe ones requiring medical treatment.
The term appears in news coverage of fires, explosions, and accidents: The hospital set up a special unit for burn victims.
In medical contexts, burn victim often specifies the degree and extent of injury: third-degree burn victims.
- scarsHealed wound tissue
- skin graftsSurgical wound covering procedure
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- painBodily or emotional distress
- healingRestoration of health
flames · house fire · smoke · smoke inhalation · emergency · bandages · ICU · trauma · rehabilitation · disfigurement · recovery · infection · morphine · gauze · blisters · second degree · nerve damage · plastic surgery
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- victimscasualty, survivors, fatality, casualties, sufferer
- war casualtiescasualties, war casualties, war dead, killed in action, fallen soldiers
- patientspatient, inpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
- firefightingfire station, fire truck, fire engine, firefighter, firefighters
- aid recipientsfood stamp users, Medicare recipients, social security recipients, scholarship holders, charity cases
burn victimsarsonists
Those who criminally ignite property
fire starters · firebugs · pyromaniacs · perpetrators · firefighters
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