pons

The part of the central nervous system lying between the medulla oblongata and the midbrain, ventral to the cerebellum. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pons is

The part of the central nervous system lying between the medulla oblongata and the midbrain, ventral to the cerebellum. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the pons is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the pons connects to

The atlas records 26 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of brainstem and metencephalon.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the pons. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as pons Varolii, pons of Varolius and pons cerebri. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000988, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: brainstem and metencephalon.
• A kind of: regional part of brain.
• Adjacent to: cerebellopontine angle.
• contains: abducens nucleus, basal part of pons, central gray substance of pons, diffuse reticular nucleus, dorsal longitudinal fasciculus of pons and facial nucleus, and 11 more.
• contributes to morphology of: brainstem, metencephalon, facial nucleus and motor nucleus of trigeminal nerve.
• overlaps: laterodorsal tegmental nucleus.

Questions

Where is the pons?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the pons connect to?

Part of: brainstem and metencephalon.

Is the pons the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.