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Rope Burn

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Rope Burn
A type of mechanical burn caused by rope. Natural fibre rope tends to cause worse burns

rope burn
skin abrasion caused by the heat of friction by a rope on the skin; caused by entanglement in a rope or poor casting technique.


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