Investigator Stephen Pratt writes:
I was a bit disturbed to read (in mini-AIR 2010-02): “Dr. Beatrice Golomb will discuss objects she has found in patients’ rectums”.
I admit that I have rarely, if ever, thought before of more than one rectum at a time but surely recta would be the more ‘elegant’ way to form the plural?
Parts of the scientific community agree with investigator Pratt. See, for example, this 2008 study of mosquito recta (click on image to get to the full study):
