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A burn is damage to your body's tissues caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight, or radiation. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. Another kind is an inhalation injury, caused by breathing smoke. There are three types of burns:
Types of burns. A burn injury is described based on its cause: thermal, chemical, electrical, radiation, smoke or inhalation, or frostbite. * Thermal burns result from contact with hot substances that cause cell injury by coagulation, including flame, hot liquids, hot solid objects, and steam.