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Injury caused by exposure to dry heat sufficient to damage the skin. Heat burns, also called thermal burns, can have many causes, including contact with an open flame, hot objects, explosions, and the sun. Heat burns are classified according to degree of severity. About 2 million people in the United States receive burns each year; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-h"],"yoast_head":"\nHeat burns - Definition of Heat burns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Injury caused by exposure to dry heat sufficient to damage the skin. Heat burns, also called thermal burns, can have many causes, including contact with an open flame, hot objects, explosions, and the sun. 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