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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A slender tissue joining two parts of an organ.
  2. n. A band of nerve fibers on the ventral surface of the brain stem that links the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with upper portions of the brain. Also called pons Varolii.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In anatomy, a part which connects two parts, as if bridging the interval between them. Except in phrases, it designates the ventral part of the epencephalon, of which the cerebellum constitutes the remaining dorsal part. The ventral part of the pons is formed by the heavy masses of transverse fibers coming from the middle peduncles of the cerebellum. Also called pons Varolii and pons cerebelli.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ
  2. n. anatomy A band of nerve fibres, the pons Varolii, within the brain stem

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain
  2. n. United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976)

Etymologies

  1. Latin pōns, bridge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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