Pons Definition

pŏnz
pontes
noun
A slender tissue joining two parts of an organ.
American Heritage Medicine
A piece of connecting tissue; specif., the bridge of white matter at the base of the brain, containing neural connections between the cerebrum, cerebellum, and medulla oblongata.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Alice-Josephine Pons
  • Lily Pons
  • pons varolii

Other Word Forms of Pons

Noun

Singular:
pons
Plural:
pontes

Origin of Pons

  • Latin pōns bridge pent- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pons.

    From Wiktionary

Pons Sentence Examples

  • Pons - the part of the brainstem that joins the hemispheres of the cerebellum and connects the cerebrum with the cerebellum.

  • Political and ecclesiastical dissensions occupied the greatest intellects, and the only progress to be recorded is in the art of computing or arithmetic, and the trans pons asinorum of the earlier mathematicians.

  • Then he studied medicine, taking his degree in 1867, and setting up in practice at Pons in Charente-Inferieure.

  • Sometimes this fissure is partly turned into a tunnel by a bridge of liver substance known as the pons hepatis.

  • One led due north from York past forts at Catterick Bridge, Piers Bridge, Binchester, Lanchester, Ebchester to the wall and to Scotland, while branches through Chester-le-Street reached the Tyne Bridge (Pons Aelius) at Newcastle and the Tyne mouth at South Shields.

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Words Starting With

PPOPON

Words Ending With

SNSONS

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Words Starting With P and Ending With S

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