c/nostupidquestions · by slaughtermouse@lemmy.world · 1yWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"? 16 points · 4 comments · view on lemmy.world
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teft@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
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.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
juliebean@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
i think they know that. if you pluralized 'sclerosis', you'd expect to get 'scleroses'. just like pluralizing 'thrombosis' gets you 'thromboses'.
teft@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
The disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Scleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y