PONS

‖Pons (?), n.; pl. Pontes (#). [] (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. [] See Asses' bridge, under Ass.