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What does pontine mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pons in the brain stem.
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All strangers at Rome are cautioned not to cross the pontine marshes after the heat of the day is over.
Pathologist Dr Adam Coumbe gave the cause of death as pontine haemorrhage, a bleed in the base of the brain.
At all levels, but particularly at the mid-collicular and pontine levels, there was a pronounced inhibition of eupnea by sighing respiration.
Jaiden Ramirez, Houston Toshia Ramirez's son Jaiden, 7, has diffuse pontine glioma, an inoperable cancer surrounding his brainstem.
The pontocerebellar fibers connect pontine nuclei with the cerebellar cortex of the opposite side, via the middle cerebellar peduncles.
St. John showed that apneustic breathing caused by rostral pontine lesions disappeared when the animal awoke.

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