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Definition of Pontine
1. a. Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples.
Definition of Pontine
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pons in the brain stem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pontine
1. pertaining to bridges [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontine
Literary usage of Pontine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"Bulbar and Pontine Forms. — Here the features that stand in the foreground, either
as initial or as residual conditions, are the cranial nerve ..."
2. Days Near Rome by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (1907)
"CHAPTER XXV THE Pontine MARSHES (PALUDI PONTINI) (This district may be visited
... the Pontine Marshes had made them inaccessible ; he adds that the Three ..."
3. Roman Cities in Italy and Dalmatia by Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1910)
"Ill THE VIA APPIA AND THE CITIES OF THE Pontine PLAIN The Via Appia intersects
... across the Pontine plain to the southern boundary of Latium at Terracina. ..."
4. Europe by George Goudie Chisholm (1899)
"The Pontine Marshes —The Sabine, Alban, and Volscian Hills—Naples Towards the
west the Roman Campagna merges into the equally unhealthy Marittima, ..."
5. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1829)
"The causes which rendered the Maremma unhealthy, produced the same effects on
the Pontine marshes. The country having been depopulated by barbarians, ..."
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