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malpighian |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Malpighian \Mal*pi"ghi*an\, a. (Anat.) Of pertaining to or discovered by Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. {Malhighian} {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.
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