Malpighian corpuscle

1. A mass of arterial capillaries enveloped in a capsule and attached to a tubule in the kidney. Also called Malpighian body, renal corpuscle.
2. A nodule of lymphatic tissue surrounding the smaller arteries in the spleen.

[After Marcello MALPIGHI.]

1. See renal corpuscle.
2. Any of numerous small nodular masses of lymphoid tissue attached to the sides of the smaller arterial branches in the spleen. Also called malpighian body, splenic lymph follicle.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron
  Synonyms: malpighian body, renal corpuscle

There are at least two anatomical structures called a Malpighian corpuscle. They are also known as:

• Renal corpuscles — the initial filtering component of nephrons in the kidneys
• splenic lymphoid nodules, or White nodules — follicles in the white pulp of the spleen, containing many lymphocytes

These structures are named after Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), an Italian physician and biologist regarded as the father of microscopical anatomy and histology.

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