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Noun
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pons

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

n. Array
     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.  [1913 Webster]
∥Pons asinorum. [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See Asses' bridge, under Ass.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

, n. (pl. pontes) Anat. (in full pons Varolii) the part of the brain stem that links the medulla oblongata and the thalamus.

Idiom
pons asinorum any difficult proposition, orig. a rule of geometry from Euclid ('bridge of asses').
Etymology
L, = bridge: Varolii f. C. Varoli, It. anatomist d. 1575
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