NameThe scientific name comes from Latin roots “hoero” and “medicinal” to mean adhesive medicine. The common name, leech, comes from Old English and describes a person who relies on others. Actual SizeThey’re lancet shaped worms that range from 5 to 25 millimeters long. They have two ...
Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants Sebastian Kvist, Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Danielle de Carle, Peter Trontelj & Mark E. Siddall Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 9885 (2020) Cite this...
(full name the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Medicinal Plants; before 1969, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants), the leading scientific research establishment in the USSR in the field of medicinal horticulture, engaged in the study of the raw ...
Research site: (a) Ethiopia, (b) Amhara State, and (c) Raya Kobo district (not legal map). Raya Kobo district has a total population of 261,897 (females 128,157; males 133,740) [31]. Amharic is the mother tongue language of the great majority of the people of the district [32]...
10). Leech and rabies took the next two spots (0.75 each). Fig. 10 Livestock ailments in the study district along with the Consensus Factor of Informants (ICF) Full size image Fidelity level Hordeum vulgare L. had the highest fidelity level (FL = 98%) for treating bone fractures ...
In the new English Dictionary, Saxon Leechdom is quoted (c. 1000), "This Wort strengthens the man," and it states, " Ad fluxum Sanguinis accipe de Confirma, hoc est consolida." In the Saxon Herbarium it was thus recommended for one" Bursten Within"; the leaves ...
Diseases, such as black leg (shivering), wounds around mouth and hooves, neck swelling/liver fluke, fleas and lice, acute swelling, horn worm ('Haseka- resi'), cough, blotting, tuberculosis, anthrax, leech and bone fracture are common livestock health problems in Adwa District (see ...
Destabilase from the medical leech Hirudo medicinalis belongs to the family of i-type lysozymes. It has two different enzymatic activities: microbial cell walls destruction (muramidase activity), and dissolution of the stabilized fibrin (isopeptidase act