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Definition of Malpighian body
1. Noun. The capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron.
Group relationships: Nephron, Uriniferous Tubule
Terms within: Bowman's Capsule, Capsula Glomeruli, Glomerular Capsule, Glomerulus
Generic synonyms: Capsule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malpighian Body
Literary usage of Malpighian body
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1906)
"A drawing of a tubercle beginning about a malpighian body is shown. In this we
have a typical accumulation of round-cells about a malpighian body; ..."
2. The Microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease ... v.2 by Arthur Hill Hassall (1855)
"The correct view of the structure of the malpighian body is, however, ...
A malpighian body, as already stated, consists of the dilated extremity of a ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1879)
"In most sections the two bodies appear quite disconnected, but in those sections
in which the glomerulus of the malpighian body comes into view it is seen ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1879)
"The whole malpighian body is shrunken and diminished in size. ... Three tubules,
close to the affected malpighian body, contain fatty epithelium which is ..."
5. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The remainder of the vesicle becomes converted into a malpighian body (n1g).
By the first of these changes a tube is established connecting each pair of ..."
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