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A smaller portion of the pons is supplied by the anterior and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries.ĭuring embryonic development, the metencephalon develops from the rhombencephalon and gives rise to two structures: the pons and the cerebellum. Most of the pons is supplied by the pontine arteries, which arise from the basilar artery. The superior cerebellar artery winds around the upper margin of the pons. There is a bulge to either side of the basilar sulcus, created by the pontine nuclei that are interweaved amid the descending fibres within the substance of the pons. The ventral surface of the pons features a midline basilar sulcus along which the basilar artery may or may not coarse. The ventral aspect of the pons faces the clivus, with the pontine cistern intervening between the two structures. The pons can be broadly divided into two parts: the basilar part of the pons (ventral pons), and the pontine tegmentum (dorsal pons). Posteriorly, the pons curves on either side into a middle cerebellar peduncle.

The superior pontine sulcus separates the pons from the midbrain. The junction of pons, medulla oblongata, and cerebellum forms an angle - the cerebellopontine angle. The horizontal medullopontine sulcus demarcates the boundary between the pons and medulla oblongata on the ventral aspect of the brainstem, and the roots of cranial nerves VI/VII/VIII emerge from the brainstem along this groove. It is the part of the brainstem situated between the midbrain and the medulla oblongata, and in front of the cerebellum. The pons in humans measures about 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) in length. This region of the brainstem includes neural pathways and tracts that conduct signals from the brain down to the cerebellum and medulla, and tracts that carry the sensory signals up into the thalamus. The pons is also called the pons Varolii ("bridge of Varolius"), after the Italian anatomist and surgeon Costanzo Varolio (1543–75).

The pons (from Latin pons, "bridge") is part of the brainstem that in humans and other bipeds lies inferior to the midbrain, superior to the medulla oblongata and anterior to the cerebellum.