Definition of Malpeghian
Mal*pi"ghi*an (?), a. (Anat.)
Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an
Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Malpighian capsules or
corpuscles, 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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