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pons

pons \'pa:nz\ \'pa:n-.te-z\ \.pa:nz-v*-'ro--le--.i-, -le--.e-\ n or pon.tes 
   [NL pons (Varolii), lit., bridge of Varoli, fr. Costanzo Varoli)] plX -1575 
   It surgeon and anatomist : a broad mass of chiefly transverse nerve fibers 
   conspicuous on the ventr al surface of the brain of man and lower mammals 
   at the anterior end of the medulla oblongata