Meanings of hirudo in inglés

Alintah, water-leech (hirudo); achih, small land-leech, dropping from the leaves of trees whilst moist with dew, and troublesome to travellers in passing through the woods.

It is concluded that Hirudo may decrease proteinuria and alleviate renal parenchymal damage.

Here we report the cloning of two innexins from the leech Hirudo medicinalis.

In this study, we used culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches to characterize the digestive-tract microbiota of Hirudo orientalis.

Renal biopsy was performed in 31 cases of primary glomerulonephritis and the effect of Hirudo in these patients observed.

The medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, has a remarkably simple gut population carrying two extracellular microbes in the crop where the ingested blood is stored.