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second-degree

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
second-degree

▶adjective

1 Medicine denoting burns that cause blistering but not permanent scars.

2 Law, chiefly N. Amer. denoting a category of a crime, especially murder, that is less serious than a first-degree crime.

'second-degree' also found in these Oxford entries:

degree - quadric

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