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Found 1 definition: pons.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun pons has 2 senses

1. pons(n = noun.person) alice-josephine pons, lily pons - United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976);
is a kind of coloratura, coloratura soprano

2. pons(n = noun.body) pons varolii - a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain;
is a kind of neural structure
is a part of brain-stem, brain stem, brainstem
has parts: respiratory center

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

pons, n. [L., a bridge.].

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. [1913 Webster]

∥Pons asinorum. [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See Asses' bridge, under Ass.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

pons, n. (pl. pontes) Anat. (in full pons Varolii) the part of the brain stem that links the medulla oblongata and the thalamus.

Idiom:
pons asinorum any difficult proposition, orig. a rule of geometry from Euclid ('bridge of asses').

Etymology:
L, = bridge: Varolii f. C. Varoli, It. anatomist d. 1575