Crossword clues for leech
leech
- One who's a real sucker
- Hematophagous creature
- Clinging type
- Bloodletting critter
- Big sucker
- Aquatic worm
- Worm once used by bloodletters
- Worm — sponger
- Swamp parasite
- Real sucker
- Proverbial bloodsucker
- Predatory worm
- Physicians' worm, once
- Parasitic sucker
- One who won't let go
- One who sponges on others
- One feeding off others
- Old medicinal sucker
- Literal sucker
- It's hard to get rid of one
- It's a real sucker
- If you're this, you suck
- Eve 6 song about parasitic friend?
- Eve 6 song about parasite?
- Earthworm relative
- Creature used in medical coagulation
- Clingy critter?
- Carnivorous worm
- Bloodsucking insect used by medieval doctors
- Bloodsucking creature
- Blood sucker
- Annelid useful to ancient doctors
- Annelid used in hirudotherapy
- A real bloodsucker
- "The African Queen" hanger-on
- Parasite sucker
- Sponger
- Moocher
- Parasitic type
- Sponge
- Bloodsucker
- Hanger-on so to speak
- Sucker of sorts
- Bloodletter's need
- Bloodletting worm
- Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
- A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- Sail part
- Sail edge
- Church chasing film vampire and bloodsucker
- End up defending conservative doctor once
- Old doctor, lewd fellow, with extra energy
- Old doctor who’s after your blood?
- Worm - sponger
- A sucker for old-fashioned treatment
- Sucker will disbelieve the basic truth, last of all
- Sucker about to wear 8 shortly after getting up
- Parasite finds shelter on top of church
- Bloodsucking worm
- Hanger-on, a slippery creature, rejected companion
- Little bloodsucker
- Parasitic sort
- Little sucker
- Human sponge
- Blood-sucking worm
- Parasitic creature
- Blood-loving worm
- It's a bleedin' worm
- Freeloading sort
- Parasitic person
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Leech is a common name for the annelids comprising the subclass Hirudinea.
Leech may also refer to:
- Leeching (medical), a form of bloodletting in medieval and early-modern medicine which used leeches
- Leech (computing), in computing, someone who uses others' information or effort but does not provide any in return
- The aft edge of a sail, which is referred to as a leech in sailing
- Leech (comics), a fictional character in the X-Men universe
- Leech lattice, in mathematics, a lattice Λ in R, discovered by John Leech
- Leech (Masters of the Universe), a character from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
- Leeches, an alternative name for pythiosis in horses
- The 12th episode of the first season of Smallville
- The Leech, a 1956 film
- Leeches!, a 2003 film
- Leech Creek, a stream in Wisconsin
Leeches are segmented worms that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass Hirudinea. Like the oligochaetes, such as earthworms, leeches share a clitellum and are hermaphrodites. Nevertheless, they differ from the oligochaetes in significant ways. For example, leeches do not have bristles and the external segmentation of their bodies does not correspond with the internal segmentation of their organs. Their bodies are much more solid as the spaces in their coelom are dense with connective tissues. They also have two suckers, one at each end.
The majority of leeches live in freshwater environments, while some species can be found in terrestrial and marine environments, as well. The best-known leeches, such as the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, are hematophagous, feeding on vertebrate blood and invertebrate hemolymph. Most leech species, however, are predatory, feeding primarily by swallowing other invertebrates. Almost 700 species of leeches are currently recognized, of which some 100 are marine, 90 terrestrial and the remainder freshwater taxa.
Leeches, such as the Hirudo medicinalis, have been historically used in medicine to remove blood from patients. The practice of leeching can be traced to ancient India and Greece, and continued well into the 18th and 19th centuries in both Europe and North America. In modern times, leeches are used medically in procedures such as the reattachment of body parts and reconstructive and plastic surgeries and, in Germany, treating osteoarthritis.
"Leech" is the 14th maxi-single by the Japanese rock band, The Gazette. It was released on November 12, 2008 in two editions; the "Optical Impression" edition, "Auditory Impression" edition. The first includes the songs "Leech" and "Distorted Daytime"- it also includes a DVD containing the music video for the song "Leech". The second comes with a bonus track, "Hole".
Usage examples of "leech".
Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.
They had carried nosegays of flowers and drunk powdered emeralds and applied leeches to the buboes, but all of those were worse than useless, and Dr.
And his father knew the plants of the marshlands Bed Straw and Ox Eye, Seedbox and Frog Fruit, Strangleweed and Dropwort and he knew the creatures of the Gulf waters blue crabs, grass shrimp, hermits, coquinas, sea anemones and sea leeches.
I was but merely saying that when we reach the lodge wherein I am making my headquarters in this principality, you will be provided all your immediate needsservants to bathe you, the services of my barber, who also happens to be a fair to middling leech, cupper, and drawer of teeth, clothing and accouterments commensurate with your true rank and station, and, do you give me your parole, weapons.
Wing Commander Dobbie got an answer to the letter he had written to Corporal Leech in hospital.
And, boy, did they know from tack downhaul, kicking strap, mainsheet, clew outhaul, topping lift, boom, tack, reefing points, leech, spreader, foresail hanks, shrouds, inner forestay, stanchion, toe rail, and fin keel!
Were not the hand of the leech fitter than that of the soldier to cure wounds, though less able to inflict them?
The Prince, the Earl of Mackworth, and two or three others stood silently watching as the worthy shaver and leecher, assisted by his apprentice and Gascoyne, washed and bathed the great gaping wound in the side, and bound it with linen bandages.
Egypt was good to the dead, preserving them for the future to study by leeching all the moisture from even protected tissue.
About him were golden limes, ginger in syrup, litchi nuts, pickled leeches.
Thing you have to remember, Tib, even when that one was Mimped to the gills, it never talked about its jobs, yeah there was a leech or two who Mimped with that one, trying to pry its mofo out of it but no go.
An exception had been made for her, but Myst often wondered if she was the only one who noticed Emma flinch and tremble, her big blue eyes glinting with apprehension whenever the coven shrieked and railed about killing leeches.
I could obey, but I can see that title is neither appropriate nor adequate, for any quacksalver with a jar of leeches considers himself a doctor.
Though cutting hair was his trade, Tordes also pulled teeth, applied leeches, and was well known for his expertise with pharmaceuticals and medicines.
Then, before the leech could properly attach itself to the fellow, the Archimandrite pulled it back and let it hang from his half-outstretched arm, where it swung and twisted muscularly with what felt for all the world like genuine frustration.