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Definition of Medicinal leech
1. Noun. Large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting.
Generic synonyms: Bloodsucker, Hirudinean, Leech
Group relationships: Genus Hirudo, Hirudo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicinal Leech
Literary usage of Medicinal leech
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"... and the cultivation of which requires no expensive outlay. This worm is the
medicinal leech ; formerly esteemed of no value, and hated and hunted ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"On ike STRUCTURE of the NEPHRIDIA of the medicinal leech. By AG BOURNE, Assistant
in the Zoological Laboratory of University College, London. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"On Ute medicinal leech. By J. RICHARDSON, Hull. The author exhibited a large
number of the cocoons or egg-cases of the medicinal leech, and gave a short ..."
4. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1818)
"A Treatise on the medicinal leech, including its Medical and Natural History,
with a Description of its Anatomical Structure.; also Remarks upon the ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The mouth of the medicinal leech has three small white hard teeth, minutely
serrated along the edges, and curved so as to form little semicircular saws, ..."
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