pulp cavity

noun

Dentistry.

1. the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pulp cavity¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

After Sanjiv was anesthetized, Sievers removed pulp from the pulp cavity inside the tooth, disinfected the area and then filled it with a rubberlike material called gutta-percha to make a watertight seal.

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“I’m just accessing the pulp cavity,” Hall said nonchalantly, shortly after he started jamming one file after the other into the enamel of Nikita’s tooth.

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To get the “when,” the scientists collected ivory from the pulp cavity, or roots, of 231 tusks—the same tusks that Wasser and his colleagues had analyzed to show the “where.”

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Dental caries is a process of disintegration which begins in the enamel of a tooth—usually in the region of its neck—and gradually extends through the dentine till the pulp cavity is reached.

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E, enamel; D, dentine; P, pulp cavity; C, cement; B, blood vessels; N, nerve.

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