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
