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Definition of Hirudo
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Hirudinidae.
Generic synonyms: Worm Genus
Group relationships: Family Hirudinidae, Hirudinidae
Member holonyms: Hirudo Medicinalis, Medicinal Leech
Definition of Hirudo
1. n. A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.
Medical Definition of Hirudo
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirudo
Literary usage of Hirudo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"The animals named in the title of this paper differ so considerably from the
Leech, as to induce the author to remove them from the genus hirudo, ..."
2. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"hirudo, L., 1758. The entire body consists of 102 simulations, five appearing on one
... hirudo medicin- known. A large leech can suck about 15 grs. of ..."
3. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1794)
"... New Species of hirudo. By the Reverend William Kirby, ALS With an additional
Note by G. ... of hirudo, which appear to me to be ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"CHAPTER XXXVII NEC PLENA CRUORIS hirudo THE reading of this precious letter filled
Philip's friend with an inward indignation which it was very hard to ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"... very rare amongst insects, or to have been but rarely observed and recorded.
On the Admixture of Nervous and Muscular Fibres in Hie Nerves of the hirudo ..."
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