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Pons   /pɑnz/   Listen
Pons

noun
(pl. pontes)
1.
United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976).  Synonyms: Alice-Josephine Pons, Lily Pons.
2.
A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain.  Synonym: pons Varolii.



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"Pons" Quotes from Famous Books



... 2 m. west from the station, and 10m. from Orange, is built on a hill 350 ft. high. The vineyards in the neighbourhood produce a good white wine. Junction with branch to Alais, 35m. west, by Connaux, St. Pons, Cavillargues, Seyne, Celas, and Mejannes; small and ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black

... and pompous of all Rose-Pom, pons! I am head editor of a religious journal; and as I must make some appearance in so respectable a concern, I ask every month for four weeks in advance, and three days of liberty. On this condition, I consent to play the saint for twenty-seven days out ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... heretics from their domains, and holding with the heretics themselves conferences which frequently drew a numerous attendance. A knight "full of sagacity," according to a contemporary chronicler, "Pons d'Adhemar, of Rodelle, said one day to Foulques, Bishop of Toulouse, one of the most zealous of the pope's delegates, 'We could not have believed that Rome had so many powerful arguments against these folk ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... jargon of the anthropotomist, ever to hope to reveal any great truth for science, and dispel the mists which still hang over the phenomena of the nervous system. He is steeped too deeply in the base nomenclature of the antique school, and too indolent to question the import of Pons, Commissure, Island, Taenia, Nates, Testes, Cornu, Hippocamp, Thalamus, Vermes, Arbor Vitro, Respiratory Tract, Ganglia of Increase, and all such phrase of unmeaning sound, ever to be productive of lucid interpretation of the cerebro-spinal ens. Custom alone ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... They seem to me crystals formed from a stronger solution of humanity than the steeple of the new meeting-house. I may be wrong, but the Tiber has a voice for me, as it whispers to the piers of the Pons Aelius, even more full of meaning than my well-beloved Charles eddying round the piles of West ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... removal of the pancreas, however, determines glycosuria, the organ having in health an inhibitive action on sugar production by the liver. The same result follows the reflection of irritation from other sources, as from different ganglia (corpora striata, optic thalami, pons, cerebellum, cerebrum) of the brain. Similarly it is induced by interruption of the nervous control along the vasomotor tracts, as in destruction of the upper or lower cervical sympathetic ganglion, by cutting the nervous branch connecting ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... here interrupting his governor's affectionate appeal,—"you are good to talk about Trumpington and the Pons Asinorum, but if you interfere with the course of justice in any way, or prevent me from shooting any dog of an Arab who snarls at my heels, I have another pistol; and, by the beard of the Prophet! a bullet for you too." ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Pons" :   coloratura soprano, pons Varolii, brainstem, respiratory center, brain-stem, brain stem, neural structure, coloratura



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