slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 9 days agoWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 9 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squarejuliebeanlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·9 days agoi think they know that. if you pluralized ‘sclerosis’, you’d expect to get ‘scleroses’. just like pluralizing ‘thrombosis’ gets you ‘thromboses’.
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoScleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoThe disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.
i think they know that. if you pluralized ‘sclerosis’, you’d expect to get ‘scleroses’. just like pluralizing ‘thrombosis’ gets you ‘thromboses’.
Scleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.
The disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.