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]

the Wallace rule of nines

  1. (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.

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