Malpighianadj.

1842 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 132 58 The Malpighian bodies I saw to be a rounded mass of minute vessels invested by a cyst or capsule of precisely similar appearance to the basement membrane of the tubes.

1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) II. 1191 These are the Malpighian bodies or corpuscles of the kidney.

1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 68 The tufts of vessels which form the Malpighian bodies.

1962 Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 1572 These lymphatic sheaths constitute the white pulp of the spleen, and here and there the sheaths are enlarged to form the splenic lymphatic follicles (Malpighian bodies).

1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) II. 1088 These little vesicles or capsules, formerly known as the Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, were discovered in the pig by Malpighi.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 798/2 Turning sharply on itself..it [sc. a kidney tubule] again becomes convoluted, ultimately ending by dilating into a flask-like bulb called a Malpighian corpuscle.

1984 J. R. Tighe & D. R. Davies Pathol. (ed. 4) vii. 56 The bright red of the red pulp contrasts strikingly with the blue islands of lymphoid tissue in malpighian corpuscles (or white pulp).

1842 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 132 61 The blood, leaving the Malpighian tufts, is conveyed by their efferent vessels to the great renal reservoir.

1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) II. 1196 Others look on a Malpighian tuft as merely an example of an artery breaking up into a rete mirabile.

1878 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. 841 The vessels—and more especially those of the medulla, the Malpighian tufts, and the stellate veins on the surface [of the kidney]—become..congested.

1842 W. Bowman in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 132 68 It sometimes happens that..extravasation is found to take place into the interstices of the tubes, with or without escape into the Malpighian capsules and tubes.

1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 247/1 This very interesting phenomenon of ciliary motion in the neck of the tube and in the Malpighian capsule was discovered by Mr. Bowman in the frog.

1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. v. §9 The tubules [of the kidney]..terminate in dilatations..called Malpighian capsules.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 115 The other set of depuratory organs, those, namely, which are charged with the direct elimination of effete nitrogenous substances, are always, with the exception of Aphis, Coccus, and Chermes, present in insects as the ‘Malpighian vessels’.

1871 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 11 290 Others..form, immediately under the Malpighian layer of the skin, a fine terminal network of pale fibres.

1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) II. 613 The living Malpighian layer of the epidermis.

1889 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 5) II. iii. 687 The epidermis consists of..an inner soft layer, the Malpighian layer [etc.].

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 89 A thickening of the Malpighian layer, which forms the ‘nailbed’ out of which the corneous cells grow.

1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 100 Malpighi..discovered that lower layer of the epidermis, the rete mucosum, which we more frequently now call after him the Malpighian layer.

1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) i. 1 The five layers of which the epidermis is composed may be looked upon as five stages in the development of the epidermal cell; commencing as the columnar cell of the basal layer which by division forms the cells of the prickle-cell or malpighian layer.

1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind ix. 224 Malpighi distinguished the horny outer layer of the tongue from the reticular mucous layer (now known as the Malpighian layer) and isolated the taste buds.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 393 The intestine is provided with Malpighian tubules.

1926 R. M. Neill Microscopy viii. 215 The kidney tubes of insects are still called Malpighian tubules.

1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) i. 162 There are great variations in the chemical composition of the urine secreted by the Malpighian tubules.

1984 L. W. Browder Developmental Biol. (ed. 2) iv. 137 In larval salivary glands, mid-gut, and malpighian tubules of Drosophila and Chironomus, repeated DNA replication of both homologues follows somatic pairing.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 150 There are six Malpighian tubes with a beaded exterior which open as usual into the beginning of the intestine.

1938 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 4) i. 141 When viewed in transverse section a Malpighian tube is seen to be composed of a ring of about three to eight large and variably-shaped epithelial cells with prominent nuclei.

1971 R. F. Harwood in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) ii. 51 The organs of excretion in insects, which functionally resemble kidneys in vertebrates, are the Malpighian tubes.

2010 Yale Literary Mag. Fall 9 It grows wings, an excretionary system, Malpighian tubes that spin its waste to silk.

1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mammillæ The papillæ or apices of the Malpighian pyramids in the kidney.

1890 Gray's Anat. (ed. 12) 942 The tubuli uriniferi..finally terminate at the apices of the Malpighian pyramids.