malpighian corpuscle

1. 1.

   the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron

   Synonymsmalpighian bodyrenal corpuscle

   Broadercapsule

   Part ofnephron

   PartsBowman's capsuleglomerulus

Questions about malpighian corpuscle

What does malpighian corpuscle mean?

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

What is another word for malpighian corpuscle?

Close synonyms include malpighian body, 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 corpuscle a common word?

malpighian corpuscle 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.