Apoptosis

[Chris Beecher]

The cancer community seems to uniformly pronounce it 
 
        "A(long)-pop-toe-sis"

> Date: 16 Nov 1994 22:40:19 GMT
> From: Robert A. Fulcher <rfulcher at athena.cs.uga.edu>
> To: arabidopsis at net.bio.net
> Subject: Re: Apoptosis
> 
> About the pronunciation of this word--
> 
> I attended a lecture a couple of weeks ago here at UGA, and the lecturer
> (Genetics Professor Lois Miller) pronounced the word "ap'-up-toe''-sis."
> 
> However, I must agree that forgetting about that second _p_ does make
> the word easier to say.  
> 
>      -- Rob
> -- 
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Rob Fulcher                                         University of Georgia 
> Sophomore Genetics Major                       rfulcher at athena.cs.uga.edu
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