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Definition of Corns
1. corn [v] - See also: corn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corns
Literary usage of Corns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1860)
"10, 1859) to the treatment of corns on the sole of the foot. ... Around the
depressions in which each of these corns is seated the hardened cuticle forms a ..."
2. On diseases of the skin by Sir Erasmus Wilson (1852)
"corns, 503. A corn is an increased degree of thickness of the epiderma, ...
The ordinary seat of corns is the feet ; they may, however, be developed on ..."
3. A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences: And on by John Claudius Loudon (1806)
"The culture of vegetables in farming divides itself into, 1st, The different
grains or corns; 2dly, The different grasses; ..."
4. Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse with Their Remedies by William Youatt, William Charles Spooner, Henry Stephens Randall (1857)
"corns. In the angle between the bars (c, Fig. 47) and the quarters, the horn of
the sole has sometimes a red appearance, and is more spongy and softer than ..."
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