Kudoksia

Kudoksia is the partitive plural form of the Finnish noun kudos, meaning tissue or fibrous material in biological and medical contexts. It is used when referring to an unspecified quantity of tissue or to multiple tissues collectively. The nominative plural is kudokset, and other common forms include kudosten (genitive) and kudoksia (partitive).

In biology and medicine, kudokset refer to tissues, which are groups of cells and the extracellular matrix that carry out specific functions. Finnish tissue terminology includes epiteelikudos (epithelial tissue), sidekudos (connective tissue), lihaskudos (muscle tissue), and hermokudos (nerve tissue). Composite terms describe particular tissues, such as luukudos (bone tissue) and rasvakudos (fat tissue).

In scientific writing, kudoksia may be used to reference tissue samples or material extracted for analysis, for example: otettiin kudoksia näytteeksi (tissue samples were taken for analysis).

Notes on usage: Kudokset and kudoksia are not separate concepts; they are different grammatical forms of the same noun kudos. Kudoksia does not denote a single tissue type but a quantity or portion of tissue within a sentence, such as in research descriptions or clinical notes.