1 Urinary incontinence occurs more often in women than in men. Pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause may contribute to urinary incontinence in women. 2  Weak bladder muscles, overactive bladder muscles, and nerve damage may also cause urinary incontinence in women.  Urinary incontinence in women is common and treatable.
The corn tassel is the part of the plant where the pollen comes from, see bottom left picture. The pollen is what is used to actually pollinated the ear of corn which causes the ear of corn to grow.
Corn itself, though, has much deeper roots, going back to the misty prehistory of Proto-Indo-European. Both grain and corn come from the same very old PIE word, though there are two options for which that might be: either ger-, meaning worn down, or gher-, meaning matured..