See Also: pontine gray matter(medicine)
Poplarism(dictionary)
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pontine nuclei(medicine)

pontine gray matter (medicine) and Poplarism (iou)


pontine gray matter (medicine)


pontine gray matter -->
pontine nuclei


The massive gray matter filling the basilar pons. The nuclei are of fairly homogeneous architecture and project to the cortex of the contralateral cerebellar hemisphere by way of the middle cerebellar peduncle. Their main afferents come from the entire extent of the cerebral neocortex by way of the longitudinal pontine bundles (corticopontine fibres); thus, the pontine nuclei form a major way-station in the impulse conduction from the cerebral cortex of one hemisphere to the posterior lobe of the opposite cerebellum.

Synonym: nuclei pontis, pontine gray matter.


Poplarism (iou)



Poplarism noun. E20.
[from Poplar a district (formerly a borough) in the East End of London + -ISM.]
Hist. The policy of giving out-relief on a generous or extravagant scale, as practised by the board of guardians of Poplar in the 1920s.
Poplarist noun a person who practises or advocates Poplarism E20.