Pons

n. pl. Pontes (#).
  1. 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.
    2. Pons asinorum .
    See Asses' bridge, under Ass.