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.