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Noun: medicinal leech
  1. Large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting
    - Hirudo medicinalis

Derived forms: medicinal leeches

Type of: bloodsucker, hirudinean, leech

Part of: genus Hirudo, Hirudo

Encyclopedia: Medicinal leech

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