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Definition of Macrobdella decora

Macrobdella decora
used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species. Note: In the mouth of bloodsucking leeches are three convergent, serrated jaws, moved by strong muscles. By the motion of these jaws a stellate incision is made in the skin, through which the leech sucks blood till it is gorged, and then drops off. The stomach has large pouches on each side to hold the blood. The common large bloodsucking leech of America (Macrobdella decora) is dark olive above, and red below, with black spots. Many kinds of leeches are parasitic on fishes; others feed upon worms and mollusks, and have no jaws for drawing blood. See Bdelloidea. Hirudinea, and Clepsine. 3. (Surg.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum. Horse leech, a less powerful European leech (H[ae]mopis vorax), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

Meaning of Macrobdella decora from wikipedia

- medicinal leeches. Macrobdella decora (Say, 1824) Macrobdella diplotertia Meyer, 1975 Macrobdella ditetra Moore, 1953 Macrobdella mimicus Phillips, Salas-Montiel...
- Hirudinaria manillensis, and the North American medicinal leech is Macrobdella decora. Medicinal leech po****tions were reduced significantly in many countries...
- other species of the genus Hirudo, the North American medical leech (Macrobdella decora), and the Asian medical leech (Hirudinaria manillensis). Among the...
- with decorsin, a GP IIb-IIIa antagonist isolated from the leech (Macrobdella decora). Mazur P, Henzel WJ, Seymour JL, Lazarus RA (December 1991). "Ornatins:...
- microbial infections. The 1.8 A structure of trans-sialidase from leech (Macrobdella decora, Q27701) in complex with 2-deoxy-2, 3-didehydro-NeuAc was solved....
- Arhynchobdellida. The Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera lists: Macrobdella Verrill, 1872 Philobdella Verrill, 1874 Richardson LR (1969) A contribution...