Hirudo medicinalis is native to Europe, but its populations have been declining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

The medidicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis feeds on vertebrate, mainly mammalian, blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Their analysis clearly showed that the commercial and laboratory specimens were not Hirudo medicinalis, as they were labeled, but Hirudo verbana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Until now, the leeches were assumed to be the species Hirudo medicinalis, but new research reveals they are actually a closely related but genetically distinct species, Hirudo verbana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Since the time of Hippocrates and long before Carolus Linnaeus first described Hirudo medicinalis in 1758, medicinal leeches have been used in a variety of medical treatments -- some legitimate, many not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

That researchers have been mistakenly using Hirudo verbana in their work for decades may call much of this research, including hundreds of scientific publications, into question and force a reconsideration of what scientists think they know about this widely studied species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Hirudo medicinalis, more commonly known as leeches.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

The most common is Hirudo medicinalis -- the European Medical Leech.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis), besides other species of leeches, are common in the waters of Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

The sequences obtained for Hirudo transcripts represent the first major database of genes expressed in this important model system.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

(CNS) EST libraries and created a clustered sequence database of the Hirudo transcriptome that is available to the scientific community.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, is an important model system for the study of nervous system structure, function, development, regeneration and repair.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

To the above account of the Hirudo viridisy I muft beg permiffion to add the extraordinary power of reproduftion which the fmaller fpecies of thagenus Hirudo are poffefled of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference

Leeches: 1. Any of various chiefly aquatic bloodsucking or carnivorous annelid worms of the class Hirudinea, of which one species Hirudo medicinalis was formerly used by physicians to bleed patients and is now sometimes used as a temporary aid to circulation during surgical reattachment of a body part.    From Wordnik.com.  [FU AP « BuzzMachine] Reference

While Hirudo medicinalis was approved by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

"The leeches (Hirudo) medinial is having proven to provide an effective means to reduce blood relieve venous pressure from pooling blood and into stimulate circulation in reattachment operations for organs with critical blood flow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brudirect News1] Reference

Hirudo for hirundo, 48.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"] Reference

Leuckart on embryology of Hirudo, 168.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Hirudo fexocu - hca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..] Reference

Hirudo ore cauiUque ampla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..] Reference

Hirudo dorlb clevaio, cauda la.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..] Reference

Hirudo dcprefla aiba, lateribus acucii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..] Reference

7. reprefents the Hirudo viridis both of its natural fize and magnified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference

Hirudo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Hirudo, 166.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Snlgel, a) Umax; b) Hirudo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference