malpighian

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

malpighian, a. 

 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.