Wallace rule of nines

English

Etymology

Published by Scottish plastic surgeon Alexander Burns Wallace (1906–1974) in 1951.

Proper noun

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.

Further reading

• Wallace rule of nines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia