malpighian body

Questions about malpighian body

What does malpighian body mean?

malpighian body means "the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron".

What is another word for malpighian body?

Close synonyms include malpighian corpuscle, renal corpuscle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malpighian body a common word?

malpighian body is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.