medicinal leech
medicinal leech
medic′inal leech′
n.
| Noun | 1. |  medicinal leech - large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting |
| 单词 | medicinal leech | |||
| 释义 | medicinal leechmedicinal leechmedic′inal leech′n.
Medicinal LeechMedicinal Leech(Hirudo medicinalis), an annelid of the class Hirudinea. Average body length, 12 cm. The dorsal side of the medicinal leach is greenish, with orange stripes and black spots. The gullet has three toothed mandibles bordered by salivary ducts. The medicinal leech inhabits fresh waters in central and southern Europe and the Middle East. It feeds on the blood of large mammals that enter the watering places where it is found. The saliva of the leech contains hirudin, an anticoagulant, which causes the wounds inflicted by the mandibles to bleed for a long time. Medicinal leeches are used for therapeutic bloodletting and, in modern medicine, in the treatment of thrombophlebitis, hypertension, and prestroke conditions. REFERENCESIvanov, A. V. Promyslovye vodnye bespozvonochnye. Moscow, 1955. Zhizn’ zhivotnykh, vol. 1. Moscow, 1968.A. V. IVANOV medicinal leech
Synonyms for medicinal leech
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