Sites

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 - 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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Medicinal leech may offer clues to neural regeneration - English
URL: http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/9612.Sahley.leech.html

Purdue University biologist Christie Sahley and research assistant Orie Shafer have found that nitric oxide synthase, or NOS, is activated when parts of the nerve cell are damaged in the medicinal leech, a three-inch-long invertebrate known for its ability to regenerate its neural connections.

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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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Hirudinea - English
URL: http://www.vims.edu/~mes/leech/hirudinea.html

Part of tree of Life.

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Class Hirudinea - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/annelida/hirudinea.html

Leeches are unlike other annelids in several ways. They have a fixed number of segments (usually 34), a dorso-ventrally flattened body, both an anterior and posterior sucker (usually), no parapodia, and usually no setae. The coelom is not subdivided by septa in most species, and it has been filled with muscle and connective tissue.

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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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About leeches - Research Institute of Regeneration - English
URL: http://www.frb.spb.ru/eng/leeches.htm

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

Iglene (Hirudinea) har en karakteristisk sugeskål i hver ende eller foran. De fleste artene er rovdyr på evertebrater, f. eks. fjærmygglarver og andre insekter. Noen er parasitter på fisk, og en art er istand til å 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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Action plan for Hirudo medicinalis - English
URL: http://www.ukbap.org.uk/asp/UKPlans.asp?UKListID=365

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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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