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pontine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pontine \Pon"tine\, a. [L. Pontinus or Pomptinus, an appellation given to a district in Latium, near Pometia.] Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]
Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to the pons in the brain stem.
Wikipedia
Pontine may refer to:
- Having to do with the pons, a structure located in the brain stem (from pons, "bridge")
- Pontine Marshes, a region of Italy near Rome
- Pontine Islands, islands of Italy near Circeo
Usage examples of "pontine".
Silvio, nelle sue caccie verso le paludi pontine, soleva fermarsi, passando, in casa del buon Marcello, padre di Camilla, a poca distanza di Roma.
An adept in all manly exercises and especially in horsemanship, he sometimes used to ride without stopping from Rome to Naples, a distance of forty-one leagues, passing through the forest of San Germano and the Pontine marshes heedless of brigands, although he might be alone and unarmed save for his sword and dagger.
As we walked there, a heavy feeling descended that I was being sucked into a bottomless black pool in the isolated wastes of the Pontine Marshes.
Hence through Lucius Antonius, his brother, who was tribune, he introduced a measure that considerable land be opened for settlement, among the parcels being the region of the Pontine marshes, which he stated had already been filled and were capable of cultivation.
When I took him out on the Pontine marshes he located several extinct volcanoes, and sketched plans for draining the fever-laden area.
Round the towering quarry-scarred headland we launched out on the arrow-straight road that runs through the Pontine Marshes to the Alban Hills and the Appian Way into Rome.
Parma caught sight of Hippolyta, Medea, and the rest of the Pontine women from Ludus.
He watched their carriage from the inn at Terracina, as it skimmed along the level road of the Pontine Marshes, and could not despair while he expected its quick return.
Trajan also began to make roads across the Pontine Marshes, and founded several public libraries.
Italia, properly so called 2 Etruria 2 Umbria 2 Picenum 2 Sabini 3 Marsi 3 Peligni 3 Vestini 3 Marrucini 3 Frentani 3 Latium: its two senses 3 The Campagna 3 The Pontine Marshes 4 Campania 4 Bay of Naples 4 Samnium 4 Apulia 4 Calabria 4 Lucania 4 Bruttii 4 Fertility of Italy 5 Its productions 5 Its inhabitants 5 I.
Frank could see, far inland across the Pontine Marshes, the gilded dome of St.
Gauls, far fiercer than Phrygians, Cappadocians, Pontines, Bithynians, Ionian or Dorian Greeks.
Probably from the usual effects of a pontine hemorrhage on the nearby thermoregulatory centers.
Secondly, the eye motor nuclei which control eye movements lie upstream in the brain stem, forward of aminergic and cholinergic state control systems in the pontine brain stem.
Within this pontine region are two populations of nerve cells that have distinctive chemical signatures.