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slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

Why isn't it "multiple scleroses"?

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Why isn't it "multiple scleroses"?

slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago
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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.

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      i think they know that. if you pluralized ‘sclerosis’, you’d expect to get ‘scleroses’. just like pluralizing ‘thrombosis’ gets you ‘thromboses’.

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        The disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.

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        Scleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.

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