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Hirudotherapy is a treatment with the using of medicinal leech - English
URL: http://ewahankiewicz.w.interia.pl/h2.htm

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World bibliography on subterranean Annelida, Hirudinea - English
URL: http://members.aol.com/blspecies/hirudinea.htm

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Leeches - English
URL: http://www.vims.edu/env/research/leeches/leechfigs.html

Leech Paraphernalia Representataive taxa

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Leeches - English
URL: http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/main/dep/biology/zoology/leech.htm

Photographs of various species from the North Pacific and the Ukraine.

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Leeches of Australia Webpage - English
URL: http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~fgodevic/leech/

This site is devoted to providing information about leeches (Hirudinoidea) in general and about Australian leeches in particular.

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Class Hirudinea - English
URL: http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya/Animalia/

The final major class in phylum Annelida, class Hirudinea, consists of the leeches. Leeches are known for sucking the blood of humans, but most are free-living and eat small invertebrates, feeding on their blood. Most live in freshwater environments, although a few can live in terrestrial environments. Like earthworms, leeches are hermaphroditic and lack appendages. To successfully drink the blood, they have a small sucker in the anterior end and a larger one in the posterior end.

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Leeches - Hirudinea - English
URL: http://www.purchon.com/ecology/leeches.htm

Leeches are related to earthworms and lugworms (Oligochaetes), and bristle worms (Polychaetes). But unlike other worms they have a sucker at each end - one for feeding, the other for hanging on while they feed. They all belong to a group of legless invertebrates (animals without a skeleton) called Annelids - "anulus" is the Latin for "ring".

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class Hirudinea (ERMS taxonomic hierarchy) - English
URL: http://erms.biol.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/hierarchy.pl?rank=class&taxon=Hirudinea

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Artstre: Igler (Hirudinea) - Norwegian
URL: http://www.miljolare.no/data/ut/art/?or_id=1785

Iglene (Hirudinea) har en karakteristisk sugeskеl i hver ende eller foran. De fleste artene er rovdyr pе evertebrater, f. eks. fjжrmygglarver og andre insekter. Noen er parasitter pе fisk, og en art er istand til е suge blod av pattedyr. Denne arten (Hiru..

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Systematic tree of organisms: Hirudinea - English
URL: http://www.miljolare.no/data/ut/art/?lang=eng&or_id=1785

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Class Hirudinea - English
URL: http://lakes.chebucto.org/ZOOBENTH/BENTHOS/xxvi.html

Contents: Introduction Habitat Indicator value Micrograph of a leech, ventral view References and web URLs

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Medical Use of H. medicinalis - English
URL: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mcbstaff/graf/AvHm/MedUsemain.htm

During the 1980's, reports were published that described the successful application of medicinal leeches to rescue surgery cases with complications. During the reattachment of severed fingers and ears, or of the detached scalp, the blood flow needs to be reestablished. This is achieved by reconnecting the major arteries and veins. In particular, the veins can be difficult to find.

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Entrez-PubMed - English
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8

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Exploring the use of the medicinal leech: a clinical risk-benefit analysis. de Chalain TM.

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News in Science - A mechanical medicinal leech? - 14/12/2001 - English
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s439856.htm

US researchers have developed a mechanical leech which they say can replace the flesh-and-blood variety used to prevent blood from clotting in plastic surgery.

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Medicinal leech - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - English
URL: http://www.rspb.org.uk/biodiversity/RSPBandbiodiversity/lead_partner/inverts/lee

The medicinal leech is a Globally Threatened Species and a Biodiversity Action Plan priority species. The RSPB is leading conservation action to save it in the UK.

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Medicinal leeches - English
URL: http://www.muhealth.org/~news/LEECHES.shtml

The University of Missouri Health Sciences Center's hospitals and clinics offer primary, secondary and tertiary health-care services. We educate health-care providers and participate in research.

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Hirudo medicinalis - French
URL: http://www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/bimm/protection/fr/Especes/Fiches/Hirudomedicinalis.html

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Hirudo medicinalis (Medicinal Leech): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/hirudo/h._medicinalis$narrative.h

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Пиявки: - Russian
URL: http://arw.dcn-asu.ru/~sokol/server/resours/article/silant/clitel.html

1 -- улитковая 2 -- большая (а -- с брюшной стороны) 3 -- малая ложноконская

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Пиявки - Russian
URL: http://brokgauz.academic.ru/misc/brokgauz.nsf/ByID/NT000041DE

Пиявки (Hirudinei) - отряд класса кольчатых червей. Тело удлиненноеили овальное, более или менее сплющенное в спинно-брюшном направлении,ясно разделенное на мелкие кольца, которые в числе 3 - 5 соответствуютодному сегменту тела; в коже многочисленные железы, выделяющие слизь; назаднем конце тела обыкновенно большая присоска, нередко и на переднемконце имеется хорошо развитая присоска, в центре которой помещается рот;чаще же для присасывания служит рот.

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