quality of a single physical entity burns A burn is an injury to the skin or other organic tissue primarily caused by heat or due to radiation, radioactivity, electricity, friction or contact with chemicals. Skin injuries due to ultraviolet radiation, radioactivity, electricity or chemicals, as well as respiratory damage resulting from smoke inhalation, are also considered to be burns. NCI:C34441 NCI:C34441 WHO (http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/other_injury/burns/en/) YL https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI_Thesaurus&version=15.12d&ns=NCI_Thesaurus&code=C34441