Anatomy
dental pulp
den·tal pulp [ den-tl puhlp ]
Subclass of:
Tooth Components
Definitions related to dental pulp:
  • (pulp) Tissue containing nerves and blood vessels that fills the chamber at the center of the tooth.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • A richly vascularized and innervated connective tissue of mesodermal origin, contained in the central cavity of a tooth and delimited by the dentin, and having formative, nutritive, sensory, and protective functions. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • The richly vascularized and innervated connective tissue of mesodermal origin contained in the central cavity of a tooth and delimited by the dentin.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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