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Malpighian
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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- Malpighian is an attribute to several anatomical structures discovered by, described by or attributed to Marcello Malpighi: Malpighian corpuscle (disambiguation)...
- There are at least two anatomical structures called a Malpighian corpuscle. They are also known as: Renal corpuscles — the initial filtering component...
- The Malpighian tubule system is a type of excretory and osmoregulatory system found in some insects, myriapods, arachnids and tardigrades. The system consists...
- The Malpighian layer (stratum mucosum or stratum malpighii) of the epidermis is generally defined as both the stratum basale (basal layer) and the thicker...
- A renal corpuscle (or Malpighian body) is the blood-filtering component of the nephron of the kidney. It consists of a glomerulus - a tuft of capillaries...
- Together with the glomerulus it is known as a renal corpuscle, or a Malpighian corpuscle, named after Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), an Italian physician...
- of urea from the inner medullary collecting duct. Renal pyramids (or malpighian pyramids or Malpighi's pyramids named after Marcello Malpighi, a seventeenth-century...
- conservation is a priority. Because of this, blind-ended ducts called Malpighian tubules come into play. These ducts emerge as e****tions at the anterior...
- leaving a dry pellet to be eliminated. Insects may have one to hundreds of Malpighian tubules. These remove nitrogenous wastes from the hemolymph of the insect...
- leaving through nostrils in the beak. In insects, a system involving Malpighian tubules is used to excrete metabolic waste. Metabolic waste diffuses or...