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Webster 1913 Edition
Pons
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Pons
,Noun.
pl.
Pontes
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. [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
.