Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pons"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pons \Pons\, n.; pl. {Pontes}. [L., a bridge.] (Anat.)
A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others,
but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of
nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla
oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of
the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See {Brain}.
{Pons asinorum}. [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See
{Asses' bridge}, under {Ass}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pons
n : a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the
cerebellum with the midbrain [syn: {pons Varolii}]
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