title: Malpighian
text: # Malpighian
  
  Malpighian is an attribute to several anatomical structures discovered by, described by or attributed to Marcello Malpighi:
  
  * Malpighian corpuscle (disambiguation)
     * Renal corpuscle, the initial filtering component of nephrons in the kidneys
     * Splenic lymphoid nodules or white nodules, follicles in the white pulp of the spleen
  * Malpighian layer of the skin, a term with various definitions
  * Malpighian tubule system, an excretory and osmoregulatory system found in some insects, myriapods, arachnids and tardigrades
  