Pons \Pons\, n.; pl. Pontes. [L., a bridge.]

(Anat.) 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.

Pons asinorum. [L., literally, bridge of asses.]

See Asses' bridge, under Ass.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)