steam burn
Hot mist wound
A steam burn is an injury caused by contact with hot water vapor, typically more severe than burns from boiling water because steam releases additional heat as it condenses on skin.
Steam burns commonly occur from kitchen accidents, industrial equipment, or radiators: She got a steam burn from the pressure cooker.
- scaldBurn with hot liquid
- blisterFluid-filled skin swelling
- hot waterHeated liquid, or trouble
- hotHaving much warmth
- waterClear essential liquid
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- heat and fireignite, flame, blaze, combust, incinerate
- home injuriescut, fall, bruise, scrape, sprain
- burnssunburn, scald, scalds
- heat damagescorch, char, singe, scald, scorching
- industrial accidentsindustrial accident, explosion, factory fire, mine explosion, mine disaster
- thermal processesheating, cooling, boiling, melting, freezing
temperature direction
steam burnfrostbite
Freezing of body tissue
cold burn · freezer burn · ice burn · hypothermia · chilblains
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