survive within a leech for months, so leeches could potentially act as vectors of pathogens. Nevertheless, only a few cases of leeches transmitting pathogens...

Look up leeching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leeching may refer to: Leeching (medical), also called Hirudotherapy, the use of leeches for bloodletting...

lake, a couple of the members pick up some leeches, which feed on the steroids in their blood. The leeches end up washed down a shower drain, where they...

Look up leech in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory Annelid worms. Leech may also refer to: The Leech (1921 film)...

Europe. Leeches were used in bloodletting but were not easy for medical practitioners to obtain. The collector would sometimes gather the leeches by attracting...

medicinal leech, is one of several species of leeches used as medicinal leeches. Other species of Hirudo sometimes also used as medicinal leeches include...

Dominic James Leech (born 10 January 2001) is an English cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 8 August 2020, for Yorkshire in the 2020 Bob Willis...

Attack of the Giant Leeches (originally to be called The Giant Leeches) is an independently made, 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced...

Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for his roles as Tom Branson in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015) and...

Turtle leeches are a genus, Ozobranchus, of leeches (Hirudinea) that feed exclusively on the blood of turtles. Only two species – Ozobranchus margoi and...