soft tissue structure hanging from the roof of the mouth
Soft palate The soft palate (also known as the velum or muscular palate) is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front of the mouth in that it does not contain bone.
Pulp (tooth) The central region of the coronal and radicular pulp contains large nerve trunks and blood vessels.