What Are Seed Corns?

What Are Seed Corns
Corns and calluses can be vexing, yet the body creates them to protect delicate skin. Corns and calluses are frequently mistaken for one another. Corns normally develop at pressure sites, commonly the soles and sides of the toes. They can be unpleasant.

  1. A hard corn is a tiny area of dead, thicker skin containing a central core.
  2. A soft corn has a significantly thinner surface and often develops between the fourth and fifth toes.
  3. A seed corn is a small, isolated callous that can be quite sensitive if it is located on a weight-bearing portion of the foot.

Some physicians believe that clogged sweat ducts are responsible for the development of seed corns on the soles of the feet. Calluses are non-painful thickenings of the skin’s outermost layer. They can form everywhere there is frequent contact, including the chin of a violinist.

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