'Malpighian corpuscles' definitions:
Definition of 'Malpighian corpuscles'
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- Malpighian \Mal*pi"ghi*an\, a. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. [1913 Webster]
- Malpighian capsules or Malpighian corpuscles (Anatomy), the globular dilatations, containing the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney.
- Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery. [1913 Webster]