Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.