What is "pontes"

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.

n. (plural of pons English)

1. n. a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain [syn: pons Varolii]

2. [also: pontes (pl)]

See pons

Pontes ( Latin for "bridges") may refer to:

• Pontes, the Roman fort beside Trajan's Bridge over the Danube
• Pontes, the Roman name for Staines in Britain, where major bridges crossed the Thames as part of the Devil's Highway