The pons is composed chiefly of transverse fibers arranged in coarse bundles, longitudinal fibers gathered in compact bundles, and diffusely scattered masses of gray substance among the fiber bundles, the nuclei pontis. Shown is a section of the pons near its junction with the midbrain.
Gray, Henry Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied (Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1913) 875
2400×1673, 1.3 MiB
1024×713, 201.4 KiB
640×446, 92.6 KiB
320×223, 26.5 KiB