chemical burn
Caustic skin damage
A chemical burn is tissue damage caused by contact with a corrosive substance—acids, alkalis, solvents, or other reactive chemicals.
Unlike thermal burns from heat, chemical burns continue damaging tissue until the substance is removed or neutralized.
She got a chemical burn from the drain cleaner.
Severity ranges from mild irritation to deep destruction of skin, eyes, or internal organs.
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- causticChemically burning; bitterly mocking
- blisterFluid-filled skin swelling
- skinBody's outer layer
- corrosiveDestroys by chemical action
drain cleaner · oven cleaner · wound · scar · lye · alkali · tissue · redness · pain · irrigation · eye wash · safety shower · neutralize · splash · laboratory · bleach · industrial · peeling
- injuriesbruise, fracture, sprain, fractures, concussion
- heat and fireignite, flame, blaze, combust, incinerate
- burnssunburn, scald, scalds
- harmharming, injury, hurting, abuse, injuring
- industrial accidentsindustrial accident, explosion, factory fire, mine explosion, mine disaster
- skin injuriescut, scrape, scratch, bruise, blister
chemical burnthermal burn
Heat-caused tissue injury
fire burn · scald · sunburn · electrical burn · cold burn
chemical burnwound healing
Restoration after injury
tissue regeneration · moisturizing · skin graft · skin regeneration · tissue repair
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