As far as I can tell there is no POP in apoptosis, being a concatenation of the words "apo" and "ptosis". The people with the pop are the same people who use flow cytometry to quantitate cells (instead of quantify them). PharmInfoNet ( http://www.pharminfo.com/pin_hp.html <http://www.pharminfo.com/pin_hp.html> ) the only medical dictionary that I could find on the net that also has pronunciation concurs: Apoptosis (ap-oh-TOE-sis) programmed cell death in which the cell membrane and genetic material disintegrate; cellular suicide, also known as programmed cell death.
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