PONS (pontes)

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Irregular inflected form: pontes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pons mean? 

• PONS (noun)
  The noun PONS has 2 senses:

1. United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976)

2. a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain

  Familiarity information: PONS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alice-Josephine Pons; Lily Pons; Pons

Instance hypernyms:

coloratura; coloratura soprano (a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

pons; pons Varolii

Hypernyms ("pons" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Meronyms (parts of "pons"):

respiratory center (the center in the medulla oblongata and pons that integrates sensory information about the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and determines the signals to be sent to the respiratory muscles)

Holonyms ("pons" is a part of...):

brain-stem; brain stem; brainstem (the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus)

 Context examples 

A cavity within the subarachnoid space between the two temporal lobes and in front of the pons.

(Interpeduncular Cistern, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of sporadic and inherited neurodegenerative disorders affecting the cerebellum, pons, and inferior olives.

(Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Damage to CNS motor pathways from the cerebral cortex to the facial nuclei in the pons leads to facial weakness that generally spares the forehead muscles.

(Facial Nerve Paralysis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An area of the brain comprised of the cerebellum, pons and medulla.

(Epencephalon, NCI Thesaurus)

The uppermost portion of the brainstem located between the pons and the diencephalon.

(Mesencephalon, NCI Thesaurus)

The lower portion of the brainstem located between the pons and brainstem.

(Medulla Oblongata, NCI Thesaurus)

The fourth ventricle lies dorsal to the pons which also contains the motor trigeminal nuclei and the abducens nuclei.

(Murine Pons, NCI Thesaurus)

A region of the brain at the junction of the pons, cerebellum, and medulla.

(Cerebellopontine Angle, NCI Thesaurus)

This immunoconjugate targets the dopamine-beta-hydroxylase enzyme localized on adrenergic nerves in the brainstem particular medulla and pons, thereby could be used to study neurodegenerative disorders and/or address fundamental neurobiological questions.

(Anti-Dopamine-b-Hydroxylase Monoclonal Antibody-Saporin, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery formed by the union of the two vertebral arteries at the posterior border of the pons then diverges at the anterior border forming the two superior and two posterior cerebral arteries.

(Basilar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)