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Malpighian(medicine)
Malpighian(dictionary)
malpighian tubules(medicine)
malpighian cell(medicine)
malpighian capsule(medicine)
malpighian bodies(medicine)
malpighian tuft(medicine)
malpighian vesicles(medicine)
malpighian corpuscles(medicine)

malpighian tuft (medicine) and present(2) (iou)


malpighian tuft (medicine)


malpighian tuft -->
glomerulus
<anatomy, nephrology> One of the structures which comprise the nephron (functional unit) in the kidney. The glomerulus is composed of capillary blood vessels which are actively involved in the filtration of the blood.


present(2) (iou)



present noun1. ME.
[Ellipt. or absol. use of PRESENT adjective.]
= PRESENCE 1, 2. Long rare or obsolete. ME.
A thing or person that is before one or here; an affair in hand; a present occasion. ME-M18.
The present time; the time now passing or that now is. ME.
U. Le Guin There is no past and future, only a sort of eternal present. E. Leonard The next part brought the story to the present.
b. The current month. Cf. INSTANT noun 2. E16-M17.
c. Grammar. (A form of) present tense. M16.
B. Unsworth I speak of her..still in the present I do not always remember..she is dead.
Phrases: at present at the present time, now. at that present at that time, then. at this present = at present above. for the present so far as this time is concerned, just now. in present (a) now; (b) immediately; (c) then. on the present rare at present, now. prophetic present: see PROPHETIC 1. these presents Law this document or Writing; these words or statements. until the present, up to the present until now, up till now.