Wallace rule of nines
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Published by Scottish plastic surgeon Alexander Burns Wallace (1906–1974) in 1951.
Proper noun[edit]
- (medicine) A tool used in prehospital and emergency medicine to estimate the total body surface area affected by a burn, assigning percentages (mostly 9%) to various major body parts.
Further reading[edit]
- Wallace rule of nines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia