Definition of Pontile

1. a. Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons.

Definition of Pontile

1. punty [n -S] - See also: punty

Medical Definition of Pontile

1. Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons. Origin: L. Pontilis pertaining to a bridge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontile

pontification
pontifications
pontificator
pontificators
pontifice
pontifices
pontificial
pontifician
pontificians
pontified
pontifiers
pontifies
pontify
pontifying
pontil
pontile (current term)
pontiles
pontils
pontin
pontine
pontine angle
pontine angle tumour
pontine arteries
pontine cistern
pontine flexure
pontine gray matter
pontine haemorrhage
pontine nuclei
pontine veins
pontis nervi trigeminalis nucleus

Literary usage of Pontile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"REFERENCES to pontile hemorrhage are comparatively rare in the literature. ... Among the few text-book writers who speak of pontile hemorrhage is Guillian,1 ..."

2. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1908)
"pontile HEMORRHAGE. Theodore Diller reports a case of pontile hemorrhage with autopsy.1 References to pontile hemorrhage are sufficiently rare to justify ..."

3. Manual of Neuro-surgery by United States Surgeon-General's Office (1919)
"Lesions of the cerebello-pontile angle.—The diagnosis of lesions in this area as a rule is not difficult. In this angle are found the eighth, seventh, six, ..."

4. Equilibrium and Vertigo by Isaac Hampshur Jones, Lewis Fisher (1918)
"... indicated a destruction of either the labyrinth, the VIII Nerve, or a collection of pus in the right cerebello-pontile angle involving the VIII Nerve. ..."

5. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1904)
"Cell of frontal cerebral cortex ; mesial part of crusta to pontile nuclei ... Cells of pontile nuclei; middle peduncle of cerebellum (tranverse pontile ..."

6. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"(a) The pontile nuclei (Np) are masses of gray matter lying among the fibres of the pons. They are nuclei of origin of the transverse pontile fibres. ..."

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