At 15:28 17.02.99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hello, everyone:
>
>I have two questions re: apoptosis that came up during a recent consult on
>the subject.
I just want to comment on the second question
>2. How should one pronounce "apoptosis"?
As a german I would prefer (A-pop-tO-sis), pronouncing every letter :-)
>And, I can't find the word in a dictionary.
try to look up in a greek dictionary:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform
I did perform a search with apopt* which gave me the following results...
apo-ptôsis, eôs, hê, falling off or away, osteôn Hp.Mochl.35; antheôn
Dsc.Praef.8.
2. a. tês archês deposition, Ath.12.530a.
3. direction in which a force is exerted, Ph. Bel.73.7.
4. vanishing, disappearance, negation, to mêdamôs on a.
esti tou ontos Dam.Pr.8; eclipse, tou eidôlou
IBID=au=Dam. Pr. 433.
II. declension from, kathêkontos Chrysipp.Stoic.2.51,
M.Ant.10.12, Procl.Inst.209 (pl.); tês eusebeias Hierocl. in
CA11p.442M.; kata apoptôsin, opp. kata katorthôsin,
Herm. in Phdr.p.166A.
hope this helps...
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Dr. rer. nat. H.-P. Steffens
Institute for Virology, University of Mainz, Germany
Hans-Peter.Steffens@Uni-Mainz.de
<http://www.uni-mainz.de/~hpsteff>
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