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Article #35Re: Thermal Burn Injury -- Why Does it Appear *White*?
From: Gregory L. Hansen
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:29
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:29
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Cold burns appear white, too, as when your finger lingers too long on the plumbing carrying liquid nitrogen. I don't know the reason, but I would guess that fluids build up underneath the outer layer of skin and lift it away from the living layer that contains the blood vessels and so on. With heat burns, though, I've gotten definite searing, but from a brief enough exposure that damage to the living skin was minor. -- "Will we be suturing the anus?"
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