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

Type of: bloodsucker, hirudinean, leech

Part of: genus Hirudo, Hirudo

Encyclopedia: Hirudo medicinalis

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Hirschsprung's disease
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Hirudinea
hirudinean
Hirudinidae
Hirudo
Hirudo medicinalis
Hirundinidae
Hirundo
Hirundo nigricans
Hirundo pyrrhonota
Hirundo rustica
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Hispanic American
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Hispaniolan