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I'm stumped..what is the pleural for cellulitis? Why don't I know this??? - shortcake

Posted: Jun 07, 2011

what's the context? - nm

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cellulitis is it, no pleural - nm

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Thank you so much, boy oh boy what a day! - shortcake

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Technically, cellulitis does have a plural form - Excellent on-line Dictionary for plurals

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There are some words that just because they are used a certain way so often they end up being acceptable, although they are not technically correct. That happens with medical plurals quite a bit.

Technically, the plural of cellulitis is cellulites.

You may still have to check with your account specifics or client to see how “technical” they want to be as far as accepting common usages or only going with the dictionary answers.

This is one of the few dictionaries that always lists plurals of words (even the ones that only add an “s”) and if there is more than one acceptable plural.

http://www.memidex.com/cellulitis

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