Apoptosis vs necrosis

[dale webb]

sdaviss at COSY.AB.UMD.EDU (Steven Roy Daviss) writes:

>Which is it?  a pop'to sis  or  a"po to sis ??
>                  |                |
>                  V                V
>          as in POPtart      as in POtable

>I've always thought it the former, but Michael Vogel says it's a silent P.

My dictionary says:
  Apo-tosis or Ap-op-tosis.  I prefer the latter.  It doesn't sound so 
funny.  A-pop-tosis is not listed.

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