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a. (context of a burn English) Causing blistering of the skin, which is more damaging than first-degree burns and less than third-degree and fourth-degree burns.
Usage examples of "second-degree".
Executing a gesture of second-degree thanks underscored by fifth-degree politeness, he stepped back.
She added a gesture indicative of second-degree animosity underscored by third-level admiration.
Lenz was diagnosed clinically claustrophobic and took prescription medication for anxiety and ensconcement-phobias, and she ended up successfully filing a Seven-Figure suit against Greyhound Lines and the almost-defunct Commonwealth Highway Authority for psychiatric trauma, public mortification, and second-degree frostbite, and received such a morbidly obese settlement from the Dukakis-appointed 18th-Circus Civil Court that when the check arrived, in an extra-long-size envelope to accommodate all the zeroes, Mrs.
I'd like to add that I also hold a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwan Do.
Then Eagan quickly outlined the situation, stating that Pitt would probably be placed under arrest and charged with second-degree criminal trespass, theft, and vandalism.
On November 15, 1974, however, John English appeared before Juvenile Court Commissioner Norman Quinn and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
A transmitter node on the bed beamed his data to her flexipad: Leading Seaman Murray Belknap, one broken hip, seven broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and second-degree burns to 15 percent of his body.
He has second-degree burns on his hands and arms, but the worst of the bums are on his palms and fingers, as if he grabbed a hot pipe, or perhaps put his hands up to shield his face.
Garlic fumes singed the insides of her nostrils, and the second round of holy water in the tub ate at the first- and second-degree burns on her entire surface.
His hands had second-degree burns, and the crawl had ground bits of glass and concrete and Lord knew what into his injuries.
No, I kept it all open and as routine as possible, considering I had second-degree burns over half my body the last time I left her.
Ricky Bloodworth had arrived in the emergency room semiconscious and suffering from hand injuries, lacerations and second-degree burns over his face and groin.
Unfortunately this foolish man took it upon himself to become embroiled in a hotheaded fashion with some fellow patient at the clinic, as a result of which, and I need not go into details, he is now in Brighton Central Hospital suffering from second-degree burns.
By the time he was spotted he had lapsed into unconsciousness, the exposed parts of his near-naked body grilled to second-degree burns by the relentless sun, and those parts submerged in seawater soft and white between the salt sores like the limbs of a rotting goose.
Kellie Shephard had second-degree burns to her back and feet, and that was all.