Which of the following produces more severe burns?

Solution

A burn is an injury to the body's tissue resulting from heat, chemicals, electricity or sunlight. Burns are often classified as first degree (those causing damage to the outer layer of the skin, the epidermis), second degree (causing deeper damage to the dermis, the layer beneath the epidermis), third degree (those causing the deepest and most severe damage destruction of all layers of the skin and damage to tissues underneath.