Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Pons

The part of the hindbrain in front of the cerebellum, between the midbrain and medulla. It is made mainly of fibres joining the two halves of the cerebellum, plus ascending and descending tracts and cranial nerve nuclei.

Key points

• Between the midbrain and the medulla, in front of the cerebellum.
• Pontine nuclei → middle cerebellar peduncle.
• Basilar artery on its anterior surface.
• Brainstem: nuclei (grey) + tracts (white).

The full note in the atlas also covers

Blood supply · Histology · Development

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1566, 1643
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF pp. 327–330
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF pp. 163, 169–170

More from the head and neck

• Postcentral gyrus
• Posterior cerebral artery
• Posterior cricoarytenoid
• Precentral gyrus
• Retina
• Salpingopharyngeus
• Scalenus anterior
• Scalenus medius and posterior
• Sclera
• Skull
• Sphenoid bone
• Sternocleidomastoid

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