Leeching — the one with two E’s — involves attaching slimy, bloodsucking parasites to various parts of your body and leaving them there until you feel better or run out of blood, whichever comes first ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto “Leeches are blood-sucking endoparasite segmented worms characterized by a small sucker, which contains the mouth, at the anterior end of the body, and a large sucker ...

Mark says you could probably step on one and not kill it. And leeches in its family can lose up to 80 percent of their body water and survive. Mark tells the story of some captive leeches that ...

The new leech species has three jaws, five pairs of eyes aligned in a U-shape, and a long conical body that changes size and shape depending on how much blood it consumes, according to the study.

URINE, collected from the nephridial bladders of the common Indian cattle leech, Hirudinaria granulosa (Savigny), and analysed by the Conway's microdiffusion technique 1, was found to contain 28.3 ...

The leech multiplies its body mass by six or seven times and will now not need to feed for several months. The surgeon describes how leeches are used to release excess blood from parts of human ...

The new leech species has three jaws, five pairs of eyes aligned in a U-shape, a disc-shaped “caudal sucker” for attachment, and a long conical body that changes size and shape depending on ...