Sentence examples for inflict burns from inspiring English sources

Other substances relied on their chemical properties to inflict burns or damage.

Reports in January that asylum seekers had accused navy personnel of beating them and inflicting burns on them by making them hold hot engine parts drew an angry response and strong denials from the government.

As Zebrowski observes early in the book, the mystery was this: "What agent of destruction could possibly travel horizontally across 24 miles of sea, surge uphill and still be hot enough to inflict fatal burns?" A scientist caught in the Mount Pelée eruption put the question more vividly just before his burns killed him.

It is then possible to exceed with just a few pulses the limit of 41°C imposed by safety standards for medical equipment (IEC-601); somewhat higher temperatures may cause pain or even inflict skin burns.

The latter performed an experiment while inflicting thermal burns to rats, with several rectangular burns on each rat separated by unburned interspaces [ 42].

The blast severed his right foot and inflicted severe burns and cuts to his legs, arms and hands.

Most people do not want a small nuclear reactor on their laps: it will not cause computers to melt down, but laptops have already inflicted nasty burns.

The explosion inflicted severe burns on Rahman's ears, neck, chest and abdomen.

The chemical burn affected the nasal architecture after inflicting a burn injury to the face.

Bone marrow-derived MSCs from GFP transgenic male mice were transfused to female mice which were inflicted with burn wounds; thereafter, Y chromosome-positive cells were shown to be present in the injured sites by fluorescence in situ hybridization [ 52].

Children with burns inflicted by other children represent a small proportion of referrals to our paediatric burns unit.