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