slaughtermouseWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?
teftBecause the disease name isn’t a plural of scleros.
Sclerosis (from the greek skleros meaning hard) 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.
Lvxferre [he/him]osis meaning a disease
Just as additional info: this is correct for English. In Ancient Greek the suffix -ωσις/-ōsis is wider, basically “plop it on a verb to get a noun for process, action or result”; so it’s a lot like one of English -ing suffixes (the one that makes nouns from verbs). e.g.
- the falling = πτῶσις/ptôsis
- the seizing = ἅλωσῐς/hálōsis