slaughtermouse@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions · 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 · 9 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squarejuliebean@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-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-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoThe disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.
minus-squareEm Adespotonlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoScleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.
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.