pontine
adjective
of or relating to the pons.
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pontine
1 American
[pon-tahyn, -teen]
/ ˈpɒn taɪn, -tin /
adjective
Anatomy.
Pontine
2
American
[pon-teen, -tahyn]
/ ˈpɒn tin, -taɪn /
adjective
pontine
British
/ ˈpɒntaɪn /
adjective
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of or relating to bridges
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of or relating to the pons Varolii
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Origin of pontine
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This is true of one especially horrible type of brain cancer, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
When Michelle Monje was a medical student 20 years ago, she saw her first case of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a childhood brain cancer that is almost always fatal within a year.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022
State Sen. Brice Wiggins is among a local delegation of state lawmakers working to designate one day each year to honor the 7-year-old in her battle with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DPIG.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 2017
The second respiratory center of the brain is located within the pons, called the pontine respiratory group, and consists of the apneustic and pneumotaxic centers.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The third to appear has a ventral convexity and is known as the pontine, since it marks the site of the future pons Varolii; it resembles the permanent flexure in the reptilian brain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
In the late 1920s, the regime reclaimed the land from the malaria-rife Pontine swamps, both to gain fields for cultivation and to prove it could make the area habitable.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
His cancer, Diffused Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, is a tumor that starts in the brain stem and is always fatal, on average within nine months.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2021
For hundreds of years up to the fifth century ad, the malarial Pontine Marshes around Rome staved off attacks by Carthaginians, Germanic tribes and Huns, yet weakened Roman citizens.
From Nature ● Aug. 11, 2019
Which argument leads us to the idea that reflooding the Pontine Marshes or the Fens would lead to an increase in the wealth of the nation.
From Forbes ● Jun. 5, 2014
He formed plans to drain the Pontine marshes, to make a survey and map of the empire, to form a code of laws, and other great works, which he did not live to fulfil.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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