snostupidquestions·No Stupid Questionsbyslaughtermouse Why isn't it "multiple scleroses"?View original on lemmy.world16Comments4Reply
teft lemmy.world4Hide 4 repliesBecause the disease name isn’t a plural of scleros. Sclerosis (from the greek skleros meaning hard + osis meaning a disease) is the stiffening of tissue.15Reply
juliebean replylemm.ee2Hide 2 repliesi think they know that. if you pluralized 'sclerosis', you'd expect to get 'scleroses'. just like pluralizing 'thrombosis' gets you 'thromboses'.2Reply
Em Adespoton replylemmy.caScleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.1Reply
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Because the disease name isn’t a plural of scleros.
Sclerosis (from the greek skleros meaning hard + osis meaning a disease) is the stiffening of tissue.
i think they know that. if you pluralized 'sclerosis', you'd expect to get 'scleroses'. just like pluralizing 'thrombosis' gets you 'thromboses'.
The disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.
Scleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.