Medical Dictionary
burn center
noun
variants: or
burn unit
alsoburns center
orburns unit
Medical Definition of burn center
: a specialized facility usually affiliated with a hospital that provides advanced care and treatment for patients with severe burn Study patients spent an average 18 days in the burn center, with 15 days required for healing after skin grafts.—Katie Tyndall, Insight, 18 May 1987 … is expected to be released today from the burn unit at Tampa General Hospital, where she has been in fair condition since suffering the second-degree burns.—The St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, 9 Sept. 1997
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