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medicinal leech

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Noun

1. Hirudo medicinalis

2. leech, bloodsucker, hirudinean

Usage
"They act as a temporary living drain, keeping the skin tissue alive..." - BBC Wildlife Magazine
Bioinspired navigation based on distributed mechanoreception in the leech - Nature
They act as a temporary living drain, keeping the skin tissue alive... - MSN
Monsoon bloodletting - Nepali Times
Predictive Distribution Modeling of the Medicinal Leech Hirudo verbana Carena, 1820 (Hirudinea, Hirudinidae) in Sicily: Implications for Conservation - Wiley Online Library
Azerbaijan eyes expansion of medical leech exports to global markets - AzerNews
Leeches are making a medical comeback – here’s why we should celebrate it - The Conversation
New Bloodsucker Is Discovered: First North American Medicinal Leech Scientifically Described in Over 40 Years - Smithsonian Institution
Host Matters: Medicinal Leech Digestive-Tract Symbionts and Their Pathogenic Potential - Frontiers
Can Leeches Spread Hepatitis B? New Research Says It's Unlikely - Docwire News
Medicinal leeches poised for comeback in Scottish Highlands - The Guardian
Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants | Scientific Reports - Nature
Researchers take a bloody good look at the medicinal leech genome - EurekAlert!
Age-old therapy new again as medicinal leeches are back in demand - WHYY
Traditional Healing In Modern Times: Leech Therapy Remains Popular In Bihar Capital Patna - ETV Bharat
How leeches (yes, leeches!) are used in medicine today - Healthcare Brew
Cutaneous Pseudolymphoma As a Rare Adverse Effect of Medicinal Leech Therapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature - Cureus
Metagenomic analysis of the medicinal leech gut microbiota - Frontiers
The development and application of mini-barcodes from mitochondrial DNA for identifying medicinal leeches from traditional medicines - Nature
Structural insights into thrombolytic activity of destabilase from medicinal leech - Nature
Discovery in Smithsonian collection broadens understanding of rare North American leech - Smithsonian Insider
De novo transcriptome assembly databases for the central nervous system of the medicinal leech - Nature
Feeding-Mediated Distention Inhibits Swimming in the Medicinal Leech - Journal of Neuroscience
Development of a mitochondrial mini-barcode and its application in metabarcoding for identification of leech in traditional Chinese medicine - Nature
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - NPR
Once dismissed as quackery, medical leeches are back for blood - Aeon
This Smithsonian Scientist is on a Mission to Make Leeches Less Scary - Smithsonian Magazine
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - NPR
Evidence for Sequential Decision Making in the Medicinal Leech - Journal of Neuroscience
What We Can Learn From The Genome Of Doctors’ Favorite Medicinal Leech - Forbes
Why Wellness Culture Has Cozied Up to Leeches (Published 2024) - The New York Times
Leeches could aid the study of sick rainforest animals - Science | AAAS
Wildly Successful: The Medicinal Leech - The Greenwich Sentinel
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the cave leech Sinospelaeobdella cavatuses (Hirudinea: Haemadipsidae) - Nature
Rare baby leeches hatch at Kincraig's Highland Wildlife Park - BBC
Does the type of anesthesia administered affect the efficacy of medicinal leech therapy after finger replantation: clinical observations in a 6-year-old boy - Wiley Online Library
Blood brothers: Philly docs, researchers suck up to leeches - WHYY
Culture-Independent Characterization of the Digestive-Tract Microbiota of the Medicinal Leech Reveals a Tripartite Symbiosis - ASM Journals
Reciprocal immune benefit based on complementary production of antibiotics by the leech Hirudo verbana and its gut symbiont Aeromonas veronii - Nature
Of Leeches and Men: The South Caucasus in the Global Trade in Medicinal Leeches in the Nineteenth Century - Blog - NYU Jordan Center
Cellular responses induced by multi-walled carbon nanotubes: in vivo and in vitro studies on the medicinal leech macrophages - Nature
Despite the ‘Yuck Factor,’ Leeches Are Big in Russian Medicine (Published 2017) - The New York Times
Cloning, characterization, and heterologous expression of a candidate Hirudin gene from the salivary gland transcriptome of Hirudo nipponia - Nature
European Medicinal Leech Genome Sequenced - Sci.News
Medicinal leeches for the treatment of venous congestion and hematoma after plastic reconstructive surgery - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotic-resistant infections appeared after surgery. Were they transmitted by leeches? - statnews.com
Researchers take a bloody good look at the medicinal leech genome - Phys.org
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - Boise State Public Radio
New Species of Leech Discovered in Southern Md. - Maryland Matters
ROM curator 'very happy' to help identify new species of medicinal leech - CBC
The much maligned leech - Isaacs - 2014 - Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health - Wiley Online Library
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - KPBS
Medieval medicine: the return to maggots and leeches to treat ailments - The Guardian
Medicinal leech - Smithsonian Insider
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - wmra.org
Finding and Describing the World’s Creepy-Crawlies - Smithsonian Institution
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - KNKX
New Species of Medicinal Leech Discovered - Sci.News
Can different species of medicinal leeches ( Hirudo spp.) interbreed? - BioOne Complete
UC researchers tune into extra sensory perceptions while studying extremely small systems - University of Cincinnati
Modern medicine still needs leeches - Popular Science
Hm -MyD88 and Hm -SARM: Two key regulators of the neuroimmune system and neural repair in the medicinal leech - Nature
A Lost Leech and a Call to Protect the Bloodsuckers - The Revelator
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - Alabama Public Radio
Leeches? Really? Doctor’s orders, in Russia’s limping economy - The Seattle Times
First New Species Of Bloodsucking "Medicinal" Leech Discovered In Over 40 Years - IFLScience
First New Species of North American Medicinal Leech in 40 Years Discovered - Newsweek
Meet Russia’s medicinal leeches - Al Jazeera
How Medical Leeches Move From a Welsh Lab to American Hospitals - Atlas Obscura
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - Maine Public
A new cellular type in invertebrates: first evidence of telocytes in leech Hirudo medicinalis - Nature
Why was this man's luggage stuffed with 5,000 leeches? - National Geographic
HvRNASET2 Regulate Connective Tissue and Collagen I Remodeling During Wound Healing Process - Frontiers
How Leeches Made Their Comeback - New York Magazine
When Leeches Are Used in Modern Medicine: Have We Turned Back Time? - Health US News
‘Icky Bloodsuckers': Philly Customs Agents Seize 300 Rare Leeches - NBC10 Philadelphia
This newly discovered leech lurked in plain sight for decades - Popular Science
WATCH: See How Leeches Can Be A Surgeon's Sidekick - WGBH
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - Hawaii Public Radio
Videos of medicinal leeches in action - DVM360
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - Connecticut Public
The Oldest Leech Ever Found Is Nothing Like Today’s Bloodsuckers - SciTechDaily
WATCH: See How Leeches Can Be A Surgeon's Sidekick - KPBS
Medical Leeches Are Back (Yes, You Read That Right) - JSTOR Daily
New species of bloodsucking leech with three jaws and 59 teeth found outside Washington - The Washington Post
What leech gut bacteria can tell us about drug resistance - Science News
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - South Carolina Public Radio
Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Scarring Alopecia: What Does the Evidence Show? - The Dermatology Digest
New species of bloodsucking leech with 3 jaws, 59 teeth found in Maryland - OregonLive.com
New leech species discovered near DC has 3 jaws with up to 59 teeth each - WTOP
WATCH: See How Leeches Can Be A Surgeon's Sidekick - NPR
Blood-suckers in Brooklyn: how the old world medicine of leeches survives - The Guardian
A Houston hospital uses leeches to save everything from severed fingers to skin grafts. Here's why. - Houston Chronicle
A New Bloodsucking Leech Species Found Hiding Outside Washington, D.C. - WOUB Public Media -
Blood-Sucking Leeches: Quack Medicine or Medical Miracle? - WebMD
The first new species of medicinal leech discovered in over 40 years - Tech Explorist
WATCH: See How Leeches Can Be A Surgeon’s Sidekick - WAMU
Inside the Lab: Medicinal leech study explores life of bacteria - dailycampus.com
Rare leech recorded in Dumfries and Galloway - Envirotec Magazine
Welsh-farmed leeches 'saved thousands of toes' - BBC
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'medicinal leech'
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Misspellings - Typos
mediicnal leech,   nedicinal leech,   mrdicinal leech,   medicina; leech,   medivinal leech,   medicnal leech,   medocinal leech,   medicinall leech,   meddicinal leech,   medicinal lrech,   meducinal leech,   medicinal leecj,   meidcinal leech,   mesicinal leech,   medicinsl leech,   ,edicinal leech,   medicina lleech,   medicinal leech,   medicinal leexh,   mdicinal leech,   medicinal leechh,   medicnial leech,   emdicinal leech,   medicinal leevh,   medicinal leecg,   medicinnal leech,   medicinl leech,   mediicinal leech,   medcinal leech,   medicibal leech,   medicial leech,   medicimal leech,   edicinal leech,   meedicinal leech,   mediciinal leech,   medicinal ;eech,   mediccinal leech,   medicinal lerch,   medicinal leeh,   medicinal leeech,   meicinal leech,   medicunal leech,   medixinal leech,   medicinal eech,   medicinal leec,   medicinal lech,   mediinal leech,   meficinal leech,   mediconal leech,   medicinal leecch,   medicinal keech,   medicianl leech,   medicinal lleech,   medicinal elech,   medicinal lwech,   medicinal lech,   medicinal leehc,   medicina leech,   mwdicinal leech,   medciinal leech,   medicinall eech,   medicinalleech,   medicinal lewch,   medicinla leech,   mmedicinal leech,   medicinal leceh,   mdeicinal leech,   medicinak leech,   medicinaal leech,   medicinal leeech
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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