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Hirudo medicinalis, or the
European medicinal leech, is one of
several species of
leeches used as
medicinal leeches.
Other species of
Hirudo sometimes...
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genus are:
Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758
Hirudo nipponia Whitman, 1886
Three other species,
previously synonymized with H.
medicinalis, were described...
- environments. The best-known species, such as the
medicinal leech,
Hirudo medicinalis, are hematophagous,
attaching themselves to a host with a
sucker and...
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invertebrate in
which a
neuron cell was
identified was the
medicinal leech,
Hirudo medicinalis.
Learning and
memory using nociceptors in the sea hare,
Aplysia has...
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Hirudo verbana is a
species of leech.
Hirudo verbana has long been used as a
medicinal leech under the
species H.
medicinalis, but has
recently been recognized...
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Hirudo orientalis is a
species of
medicinal leech. It has been
confused with
Hirudo medicinalis, but has
recently been
recognized as a
different species...
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peptide in the
salivary glands of blood-sucking
leeches (such as
Hirudo medicinalis) that has a
blood anticoagulant property. This is
essential for the...
- (Arhynchobdellida).
Their best-known
member is the
European medical leech,
Hirudo medicinalis, and
indeed most of the blood-sucking "worms" as
which leeches are...
- enzyme, hirudin, into the host's
blood stream. The
medicinal leech (
Hirudo medicinalis) has two suckers, one at each end,
called the
anterior and posterior...
- of the gut, and
about 75
percent of all
species of
leeches (e.g.,
Hirudo medicinalis) are hematophagous. The
spider Evarcha culicivora feeds indirectly...
