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mal·pig·hi·an

(mahl-pig'ē-an), Avoid the mispronunciation mal-pij'ē-an.
Described by or attributed to Marcello Malpighi.
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mal·pig·hi·an

(mal-pig'ē-ăn)
Described by or attributed to Marcello Malpighi.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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(f) Pericardium with strips of Malpighian epithelioma.
The histologic analysis revealed a high grade papillary urothelial carcinoma with a malpighian differentiation.
Fluid secretion by single isolated Malpighian tubules of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, and their response to diuretic hormone.
Expression of ApDef in various tissues qRT-PCR and immunoblot were carried out to determine the expression levels of ApDef in different tissues including the fat body, midgut, hemocytes, malpighian tubule and epidermis of A.
Silkworm larval tissues, including silk gland, midgut, fat body, hemocyte, head, integument, Malpighian tubule, ovary, and testis, were isolated from female and male larval individuals on L5D3.
One theory holds that uric acid in fat body is transported via the Malpighian tubules to the hindgut, where it undergoes anaerobic digestion by uricolytic bacteria (Breznak 2000).
"Female mosquitoes rely on their kidneys (called Malpighian tubules) when consuming a human blood meal.
In the same way, it is also the only genus in which the species produce silk from the anus using modified Malpighian tubules (Ferriere 1941), for the spinning of the cocoon.
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