English edit

Etymology edit

post- +‎ burn

Adjective edit

postburn (not comparable)

  1. After a burn.
    • 1995, Kiyonori Harii, Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, page 488:
      At one, three, six, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours' postburn period, the bilateral soleus muscles were removed and immediately incubated in Kreb-Henseleit bicarbonate buffer []
    • 2010, Scott W. Wolfe, William C. Pederson, Robert N. Hotchkiss, Green's Operative Hand Surgery, Sixth Edition, page 2099:
      Even if in the initial phase of acute hand burn injury all treatment measures have been executed properly, postburn deformities still occur and are the most common cause of skin contracture in the hand. Postburn scarring and contractures affect the function as well as the aesthetic appearance of the hand and remain the most frustrating late complication of a hand burn.