Guest guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 In a message dated 5/22/02 11:40:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, aasawyer@... writes: > insists on using plural for matrixectomy but none of the resources > or references will back it up. Any idea of what I should do. She does > more than one at a time so she thinks she should make I believe the spelling should be matricectomy rather than matrixectomy, so therefore, having two matricectomies would be correct based on English rules of changing the Y to I and adding ES for the plural form. You can find the spelling of matricectomy in Ortho & Neurology by HPI. And in Tessiers Surgical word book. It is also in the latest Vera Pyle's 8th edition. Matrices is the plural of matrix as well. Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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