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Definition of Malpighi
1. Noun. Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694).
Medical Definition of Malpighi
1. Marcello, Italian anatomist, histologist, and embryologist, 1628-1694. See: malpighian bodies, malpighian capsule, malpighian cell, malpighian corpuscles, malpighian glands, malpighian glomerulus, malpighian layer, malpighian nodules, malpighian pyramid, malpighian rete, malpighian stigmas, malpighian stratum, malpighian tubules, malpighian tuft, malpighian vesicles. (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Malpighi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"This demand Malpighi was, with the help of the microscope, one of the first and
one of the most successful to supply. By a series of remarkable researches ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"This demand Malpighi was, with the help of the microscope, one of the first and
one of the most successful to supply. By a series of remarkable researches ..."
3. A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery: From by Arabella Burton Buckley (1893)
"Use of the Microscope by Malpighi, 1661.—We have now fairly left behind us the
first fifty years of the seventeenth century; indeed, the experiments of ..."
4. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1880)
"Malpighi was the first who employed good microscopes jkj . h. in anatomy, and
thus revealed the secrets, we may 38. The chemical theory of medicine, ..."
5. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1841)
"Malpighi was the first who employed good microscopes in anatomy, ... To Malpighi
anatomists owe their knowledge of the structure of the lungs.f Graaf has ..."
6. Biology and Its Makers by William Albert Locy (1908)
"Pictures of Cells in the Seventeenth Century.—The sketches illustrating the
microscopic observations of Malpighi, FIG. 73. ..."