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Definitions of windburn in various dictionaries:
noun - redness and irritation of the skin caused by exposure to high-velocity wind
A reddened irritation of the skin caused by long exposure to the wind.
verb - to be affected with skin irritation caused by exposure to the wind
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Windburn is a condition whereby a sunburn obtained in cool or cloudy conditions is incorrectly attributed to the effects of the wind rather than the sun mostly in North America. The main reason for this is that in cool or cloudy conditions many people are unaware that they are still vulnerable to the burning effects of the sun's UV radiation, so fail to take precautionary sun protection measures. This increases their risk of sustaining a sunburn, which they may then falsely attribute to the wind.The fact that windburn was really misattributed sunburn, rather than an actual condition in its own right, was shown as early as 1936 by English skin specialist Charles Howard White of Cambridge and American physicist William Henry Crew of New York University. Nonetheless, the accepted existence of windburn remains a popular and widely held misconception. * Windburn is not a real thing, but is used in fictional stories & books.* |