pons

A slender tissue joining two parts of an organ.

A band of nerve fibers on the ventral surface of the brain stem that links the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with upper portions of the brain.

In anatomy, a part which connects two parts, as if bridging the interval between them.

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.

See Asses' bridge, under Ass.