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pontes |
1 definition found 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}.
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