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[Medicinal leeches].

Revue medicale de Bruxelles, 2010
Leeches are hermaphroditic and hematophagous annelids. One important medical species, Hirudo medicinalis, comes from hirudiniculture of fresh water pools. Thanks to their three mandibles with some 300 teeth on their anterior muscular sucker, they easily grab to tissues and by secreting their saliva containing numerous powerful enzymes, such as ...
D, Massart, S, Sohawon, O, Noordally
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The contemporary use of the medicinal leech

Injury, 1981
Over 100 000 patients with head injuries are admitted to General Hospitals every year in Britain (Jennet, 1978). A fair proportion of these have periorbital haematoma. Evacuation of the haematoma using a leech is a painless procedure which can be carried out by a nurse.
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Therapeutic Potentials of Medicinal Leech in Chinese Medicine

The American Journal of Chinese Medicine
The use of medicinal leeches in clinical therapy has been employed for a long time, as it was originally recognized for exerting antithrombin effects. These effects were due to the ability of the leech to continuously suck blood while attached to human skin. According to Chinese Pharmacopoei, leeches used in traditional Chinese medicine mainly consist
Shaohua Wu, Yaya Zhou, Yang Wang, Zuping Zhang   +3 more
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Medicinal Leech Therapy: Friend or Foe

Plastic Surgical Nursing, 2016
Leech therapy is the ancient practice of bloodletting or bloodsucking and is considered one of the oldest medical practices known. Its use has spanned centuries and is still used in plastic surgery practices today when performing free flaps and replants.
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The medicinal leech

Journal of the Royal Society of Health, 1983
C, Green, J A, Gilby
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An historical survey of illustrations of the medicinal leech

Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine, 1984
Reviewing medical, biological and popular illustrations of the medicinal leech, as they have appeared in various works over the past 800 years, it is possible to find examples of most of the common reproduction techniques used, both in the past and present, for pictorial illustration.
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Photoreceptors and visual interneurons in the medicinal leech

Journal of Neurobiology, 1984
AbstractThe medicinal leech has five pairs of eyes, each with about 50 photoreceptors. Receptors produce propagating impulses which constitute their output to second order neurons in the CNS. Within the eye, receptors have diverse thresholds, and thus the aggregate output of the eye is graded with light intensity.
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The Medicinal Leech: Past and Present

The American Surgeon, 2000
J, Upshaw, J P, O'Leary
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THE RE-USABLE MEDICINAL LEECH

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2003
Gürcan, Aslan, Ahmet, Terzioglu, Dogan, Tuncali   +2 more
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Medicinal Leeches

2013
Inna Husain, Tang Ho
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