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prepontine

prepontine adjective: anterior to the pons.

Adjective

prepontine (not comparable)

  1. anterior to the pons
    • Being congenital in nature, the pathology was deduced to be nerve hypoplasia rather than nerve atrophy. (a) Sagittal and (b) Coronal T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging showing ectatic aberrant left vertebral artery in the prepontine cistern (a) Axial T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging image...2015, Abhishek Jha et al., “Trigeminal hypoplasia due to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: A new entity”, in Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, volume 10, →DOI

Origin of prepontine

From pre- + pontine.

Questions about prepontine

What does prepontine mean?
Prepontine means anterior to the pons.
What part of speech is prepontine?
Prepontine is an adjective.

Words near prepontine in the dictionary

  1. prepone
  2. preponed
  3. preponement
  4. prepones
  5. preponing
  6. prepontine
  7. prepopulate
  8. prepopulated
  9. prepopulates
  10. prepopulating
  11. prepopulation

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