Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to bridges.
- adjective Of or relating to a pons, especially the pons Varolii.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to an extensive marshy district southeast of Rome, called the Pontine Marshes.
- Same as
pontile .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
pons in thebrain stem .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The brave youngster was diagnosed with the extremely rare tumour, called pontine glioma, on April
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I had hoped with all my heart and soul that my daughter Alexis would have been one of the lucky one percent of children diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma DIPG who survived beyond five years from diagnosis.
Jonathan Agin: Identity Theft In the Childhood Cancer Community -- Not a Victimless Crime Jonathan Agin 2011
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Mikey, Mr. Czech's only son, died three years ago from complications associated with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a rare, inoperable brain cancer.
Son's Death Inspires Fight Against Brain Cancer Melanie Grayce West 2011
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I had hoped with all my heart and soul that my daughter Alexis would have been one of the lucky one percent of children diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma DIPG who survived beyond five years from diagnosis.
Jonathan Agin: Identity Theft In the Childhood Cancer Community -- Not a Victimless Crime Jonathan Agin 2011
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I had hoped with all my heart and soul that my daughter Alexis would have been one of the lucky one percent of children diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma DIPG who survived beyond five years from diagnosis.
Jonathan Agin: Identity Theft In the Childhood Cancer Community -- Not a Victimless Crime Jonathan Agin 2011
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Beyond the fund-raising, Mr. Czech has become a point person for other parents with children who have been diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
Son's Death Inspires Fight Against Brain Cancer Melanie Grayce West 2011
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Sam has also been diagnosed with pontine glioma, a pernicious sort of brain cancer which requires specialized treatment.
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Sam has also been diagnosed with pontine glioma, a pernicious sort of brain cancer which requires specialized treatment.
The Sam Sale at Subterranean: Good Books, Good Cause « Whatever 2007
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One risk is that the cerebral edema induced by the hypo-osmolality is clearly a bad thing and should not be allowed to persist and worsen and on the other hand there is the somewhat mysterious spectre of osmotic demyelination which is typically referred to by one of it forms namely central pontine myelinolysis.
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Sam has also been diagnosed with pontine glioma, a pernicious sort of brain cancer which requires specialized treatment.
Lean Left » Blog Archive » Help Sick Kids; Read Good Books 2007
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