MALPIGHIA
Mal*pi"ghi*a, n. Etym: [NL. See Malpighian.] (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.
MALPIGHIACEOUS
Mal*pi`ghi*a"ceous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceæ), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.
MALPIGHIAN
Mal*pi"ghi*an, a. (Anat.)
Defn: 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.
MALPOSITION
Mal`po*si"tion, n. Etym: [Mal- + position.]
Defn: A wrong position.
MALPRACTICE
Mal*prac"tice, n. Etym: [Mal- + practice.]
Defn: Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [Written also malepractice.]