Talk:Corn (pathology)

Plain English
Seems to me that this article was written by someone medical since it contains unnecessarily verbose terms instead of Plain English.Gymnophoria (talk) 13:57, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Corns are special?
The article says "A corn (or clavus, plural clavi) is a specially shaped callus of dead skin…". "Specially" in what sense? This looks like a literal translation from some language other than English, but I can't imagine what it's supposed to mean. Perhaps the allegation of "specialness" should simply be deleted 5.81.184.202 (talk) 22:34, 26 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I have replaced it by “distinctively”, which makes I think must be what was intended and seems to make sense, given that Presentation starts by describing the shape. PJTraill (talk) 09:41, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

What on earth is meant by “barley hare” — it was vandalism
The section on presentation reads “The hard part at the center of the corn resembles a barley hare, that is, a funnel with a broad raised top and a pointed bottom”, with an unhelpful link to Barley, where we learn nothing about a “barley hare”. Searching Wikipedia or Google for “Barley hare” gives nothing useful, just hare barley, a weed. Can someone help? In the meantime I shall remove the reference. PJTraill (talk) 09:41, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * N.B. The same text appeared in callus in vandalism on 2006-08-02 in until removed on 2011-09-14 in . PJTraill (talk) 10:22, 1 September 2014 (UTC) (Article restored) PJTraill (talk) 10:25, 1 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Holy cow. Huritisho (talk) 20:37, 27 September 2015 (UTC)


 * As may be seen at Wikipedia_records, as at 2015-10-05, it still holds the record for the longest undetected vandalism in an article! PJTraill (talk) 12:08, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Corns from acute injury
The article claimed that corns occur at pressure points over bones, as if that were the only possibility. But AFAIK they may occur elsewhere, e.g. in the sole of the foot, due to an acute injury, when the callus nucleates on the scar tissue of the healing injury. Once formed, the corn itself becomes the pressure point. Because they're in deeper tissue, it's straightforward to excise them, though the resulting hole in the sole of the foot may form its own internal callus and regenerate the corn, so it may be necessary to remove the corn several times before the spot returns to a normal, even plantar callus.

I've editing the article accordingly, but please correct if I got anything wrong. — kwami (talk) 22:35, 28 July 2021 (UTC)