slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 2 months agoWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1message-squareWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squarejuliebean@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months 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-down1·2 months agoScleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months 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.