Yes, these parasitic annelids of the class hirudinea can actually help drain a hematoma, but yeeeesh!
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leech - Search-ID.com  Yes, these parasitic annelids of the class hirudinea can actually help drain a hematoma, but yeeeesh! Hirudinea medicinalis is a species of this bloodsucking...
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Leech - New World Encyclopedia  Apr 2, 2008 ... There is some dispute as to whether Hirudinea should be a class itself, ... However, some are parasitic blood-sucking leeches, feeding on the blood ... However, biological classification of annelids can vary widely among taxonomists. .... but it is used in a new purpose: Helping to restore blood circulation to...
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Annelida: Class Hirudinea - Infoplease  Class Hirudinea This class includes the 500 species of leeches, flattened, predacious or parasitic annelids equipped with suckers used for. ... Leeches are primarily freshwater annelids, but some live in the ocean and ... Most leeches can swim by rapid undulations of the body, using well-developed muscles of the body wall.
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Annelid - New World Encyclopedia  Oct 17, 2008 ... 1 Classes and subclasses of annelida; 2 Anatomy; 3 Reproduction ... Leeches (Hirudinea) - These include both bloodsucking external parasites and ... Depending upon the species, annelids can reproduce both sexually and asexually. ... The annelid fossil record is sparse, but a few definite forms are...
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The Annelids (Phylum Annelida) - The Earth Life Web  3)Body cavity is a true coelom, often divided by internal septa. ... Only a few species of annelids are commonly known to human beings, these include the ... The earthworms, of which there are many species, are exceedingly important in soil...
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EEK! - Alien Profile: Sea Lamprey  Large fish will most likely survive a lamprey attack with just a circular scar left on their side. ... These lampreys live in balance with their natural food chain and don't ... Evidence: Lampreys attach themselves to other fish and suck on their blood...
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Floridian: Parasite prescription - Tampa Bay Times  Sep 7, 2004 ... At Tampa General, the blood-suckers are always on call. ... They've used them to help save severed fingers, feet, even body parts ... few decades, microsurgery has allowed doctors to reattach severed parts ... Blood clots cut off circulation. ... Greenwald had removed a large tumor, and was using leeches to...
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physiology - Will a worm, cut in half, survive as two worms ... - Skeptics  Apr 15, 2012 ... However, the head part can regrow some fraction at his back end if it got lost: You may have heard that you can cut an earthworm in half and both halves will grow back. ... it will survive, but if you cut a worm into 2 pieces, one half will surely ... When a planarian is amputated transversely, two fragments are...
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Common Earthworm | National Geographic  Learn all you wanted to know about common earthworms with pictures, videos, ... some members of this species have been known to grow to a serpentine 14 ... of a liquid secreted from its clitellum, the familiar-looking bulge seen near the first...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Nov 23, 2009 ... #176035 Nov 23, 2009. Alex Trebek wrote: ` Used by primitives for blood letting, surgeons now use this worm to reattach severed body parts.
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Nerdfighteria Wiki - Complex Animals: Annelids & Arthropods ...  Jul 2, 2012 ... Hank continues our exploration of animal phyla with the more ... thorax, exoskeleton, chitin, jointed feet, cheliceriformes, arachnid, ... pupae, crustacea, shrimp, crab Support CrashCourse on Subbable: http://subbable.com/crashcourse ... In fact, the word Annelida comes from the Greek for "little rings," and...
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The Invertebrate Animals - Kimball's Biology Pages  Roundworms (Phylum Nematoda); Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda) ... The cavity is also called a coelenteron and for many years the name of this phylum was Coelenterata. There is ... Turbellaria, free-living forms of which the planarian (right) is a ... The diagram gives the life cycle of the blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni.
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Leech - Wikipedia  Leeches are segmented worms that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass ... Pharyngobdella: These so-called worm-leeches consist of freshwater or .... The leech produces an anticoagulant that prevents the stored blood from clotting, .... Bleeding may continue for some time, due to the leech's hirudin.
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Hirudin - Wikipedia  Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of medicinal leeches (such as Hirudo medicinalis) that has a blood anticoagulant property. This is fundamental for the leeches' alimentary habit of hematophagy, since it keeps the blood flowing after the initial phlebotomy performed by the worm ... A key event in the final stages of blood coagulation is the conversion of...