Talk:Areola

Ducts
I just say news on Discovery Channel that while it was previously accepted that the breast contains 15 to 20 milk ducts, it's now revealed there is an average of nine milk ducts, with some women having just four.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050620/breast.html has the details.

Someone who writes better than me should update this. I will see if I can match writing style and include it, but this would be my first edit. I'll check back in a week.

-foebea


 * Be bold, you've got nothing to loose! JFW | T@lk  23:47, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Period
Do the areola, lips, etc. change sizes periodically according to the menstrual cycle?

women in Japan statement?
The statement that women in Japan needs, I believe, to be updated to include this:

"There is a Japanese folk belief that the more sexually active a woman is, the darker her nipples become." Miller, Laura, 'Mammary Mania in Japan', Positions 11(2):271-300(2003)

This statement is found on page 292 of this article. The journal title is 'Positions'.

Perhaps the statement about "aging being the cause of nipple darkening needs a citation.

Damnforms 06:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)damnforms


 * Regular arousal definitely swells them, but I have no idea on whether they get darker... Demf 05:18, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Regular arousal can swell some nipples, but not everybody experiences this. We'd need to cite it either way. 24.137.120.159 (talk) 18:56, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposed move
I propose that the content of this article, Areola, be moved to Areola (anatomy), and Areola be redirected to Areola (disambiguation). FloraWilde (talk) 10:08, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:COMMONNAME would suggest we keep the page as is.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) Please &#123;&#123;re&#125;&#125; 17:24, 1 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Exactly. Flyer22 (talk) 17:30, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Re-write required
What does this rambling and incoherent sentence mean: "It is inherent but not known by credited research, if the correlation between nipple breadth or a child's mouth wide configuration due to racial or some families regular traits, may have some influence over the genetic need of evolution in the size of the areola pattern of growth on the individual, with its noted wide variation in women even before the onset of any pregnancy changes, and some times determined right after or during puberty in women who never had children"Royalcourtier (talk) 09:41, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

article is about human mammary areola
The entire article is about the human mammary areola, but the lead is about the medical definition of areola. I'll fix the lead unless anyone objects. Volunteer1234 (talk) 15:46, 26 November 2017 (UTC) ✅
 * Volunteer1234, what did you mean by "the lead is about the medical definition of areola"? Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 00:54, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I take it that you mean the histology focus that it began with. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 00:59, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes, I mean general anatomy. The previous version began ... is a small circular area on the body with a different histology from the surrounding tissue. This may be true but it is not what the article is about. The lead should define the topic, not some other general usage of the word. Volunteer1234 (talk) 01:05, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Volunteer1234, regarding this, did you place "human" first because you are thinking of what other animal, or rather non-human primate, "areola" may refer to? From I have read, the term areola usually refers to humans. Also notice that at the Finger article, for example, we don't include "human" until the end? We state "humans and other primates." At the Breast article, we currently state "is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso of primates." We don't usually begin with "human," unless the article's title is specified in that way; the Human brain article is one example. The way the lead is now, with "human" being at the beginning, it makes readers wonder what other animals have an areola. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 02:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The finger article does mention other animals. This article is only about humans. Not a big deal. Maybe the article title can be changed to reflect that it is human areola mammae. Volunteer1234 (talk) 03:58, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Volunteer1234, yeah, because the Finger article takes time to mention other animals, it makes sense to specify. In the case of this article, it's only about humans. So I was wondering why you felt the need to add "human areola." It seems that you were taking other mammals into consideration. As for retitling the article, when the topic is mostly about humans (meaning mainly concerns humans in the literature), we don't create a separate article for other animals. Instead, we create a section within the article for other animals; see WP:MEDMOS. It's why we don't have a "Human finger" article. The term finger almost exclusively concerns humans. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 20:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
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 * Breast with large areolas.jpg
 * Before this article used File:Breast with large areolas.jpg, it used File:Large areola contestant NAP 2013.jpg, leading to an edit war (eg Special:Diff/869913786). I have created a crop of the latter image, now available at commons:File:Breasts with large areolas.jpg, which is intended as a replacement for File:Breast with large areolas.jpg. . Brianjd (talk) 07:37, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

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"Color" vs. "colour"
I've noticed that there's been back and forth over "color" vs. "colour" at this page going back years. This is an example. So I changed the color heading from "color" to "shade" to dissuade this from happening. If anyone objects to using "shade" instead, say it here. If someone adds "colour" instead again, I'm going to let it stay because I don't intend to engage in a forever back and forth. GBFEE (talk) 20:33, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

"Skin tone" might also work. GBFEE (talk) 20:38, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

This is an even older example of the back and forth. GBFEE (talk) 21:02, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Nipple small
nipple size is to short and areola size is big 14.192.135.154 (talk) 01:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC)