plural of atheroma

[mollykins]

What's the plural of atheroma, I typed atheromas onto powerpoint and the spell check said it was wrong but didn't suggest anything and google results are confusing.

[bibblebub]

atheromas or atheromata

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/atheroma

[Sqad]

Atheroma doesn't have a pleural.

[gen2]

Chambers Big Red Brick:

atheroma noun (atheromas or atheromata) pathol in atherosclerosis: a fatty deposit that develops on the inner surface of an artery wall.

[NazNomad]

Atheromas is fine ... just because Powepoint doesn't have the plural stored in it's memory, it flagged it. Add it to the dictionary and you'll have no further problem.

[mollykins]

Thanks.

I didn't want to add a word to the dictionary that doesn't exist naz.

[Sqad]

In medicine, the plural of atheroma (if there is such a thing) is atheromatous which becomes an adjective to describe deposits or plaques

e.g atheromatous plaques or atheromatous deposits............it is used as an adjective.

[gen2]

. . . but the dictionary DOES exist Molly.

[mollykins]

The word might not have done though.

[Ankou]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oma#Suffix