noun

• The space within a tooth that contains the pulp.

  ‘The pulp cavity contains nerves and blood vessels, which nourish the tooth.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The typical tooth consists of a pulp cavity surrounded by a dentine shaft.’
  • ‘There is no dentine infolding into the pulp cavity, however.’
  • ‘In both treatments, junctions were strengthened by inserting a small piece of fine entomological pin into the pulp cavity of the rachis.’
  • ‘The architecture of the pulp cavity is also reduced to a series of coarse channels that surround the remaining blood vessels.’