Download or read book Leeches written by L. Patricia Kite and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the different species of leeches, their physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle.
Download or read book Leeches written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the life cycle and behavior of leeches.
Download or read book The Leeches of Minnesota written by Henry Francis Nachtrieb and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nematodes Leeches and Other Worms written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and types of worms, including leeches, earthworms, and tapeworms.
Download or read book Leeches Lice and Lampreys written by Graham C. Kearn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many different kinds of animals have adopted a parasitic life style on the skin and gills of marine and freshwater fishes, including protozoans, flatworms, leeches, a range of crustaceans and even some vertebrates (lampreys). There is a parasitic barnacle, described first in the 19th century by Charles Darwin, fish lice that change sex and bivalve molluscs parasitic only when young. This book explores for the first time in one volume, the remarkable biology of these little known and frequently bizarre animals. The following closely interwoven themes are considered for each group of parasites: how they find their hosts, how they attach, feed and reproduce, the damage they inflict and how the host’s immune system retaliates. Based on the British fauna, but extending where appropriate to examples from North America, Australia and elsewhere, the book is essential reading, not just for the professional parasitologist, but also for anyone interested in fishes and in this neglected field of British natural history. With the enquiring naturalist in mind, terms and concepts are explained as they arise, backed up by a glossary, and the text is liberally illustrated. An introductory chapter on fish biology sets the scene and common fish names are used throughout, as well as scientific names.
Download or read book Leech written by Robert G. W. Kirk and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.
Download or read book Leeches Hirudinea written by K. H. Mann and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leeches (Hirudinea): Their Structure, Physiology, Ecology and Embryology presents a concise account of the vast knowledge, particularly in the realm of physiology of the Hirudinea. The text provides the various aspects of the life of leeches (Hirudenea). The first three chapters are devoted to the survey of the different families of leeches and the description of Hirudo medicinalis (Medicinal leech). The physiological aspects of leeches such as its circulatory and respiratory systems, muscles, nerves, sense organs, and reproductive processes are elaborated in detail in subsequent chapters. Leech nutrition, behavior, locomotion, and the ways in which the distribution and abundance of leeches is affected by factors of the environment, both living and non-living are elucidated as well. Zoologists will find the book very useful and informative.
Download or read book Viagra Prozac and Leeches written by Don Ramon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this book originally appeared as columns in The Huntsville Item, in Huntsville, Texas. Here is a sampling of the comments the columns generated: "I laughed myself silly over Latin and German as applied to Sir Isaac Newton. Am sending a copy to my brother-in law " J.S. "I laughed so loud my wife came in from the next room to see what was the matter." B.L. "That may be the funniest thing I've ever read." K.R. "I loved your limericks. I laughed till I cried." G.N. "Your column today was especially funny. I laughed so hard, I almost barfed!" N. W. "While Mary and I have not had the pleasure of meeting either of you, we just wanted to send a note to say how much we look forward to Mr. Ramon's article every Sunday. His article alone is worth the price of admission. We mail his message to various friends of ours (some in Qatar) who just go ballistic. Today's was a classic!!!!!" M.C. (A letter to the publisher of The Huntsville Item). "The Greeting from Frankfurt was hilarious!!! I have tears rolling down my face. Springtime in Vienna was just as hilarious." S.S.B.
Download or read book Leech Fauna of Taiwan Biota Taiwanica written by Yi-Te Lai and published by 國立臺灣大學出版中心. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Those Amazing Leeches written by Cheryl Mays Halton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the physiology, habitat, and past and present medical uses of a variety of leeches.
Download or read book LEECH A WALKING NEEDLE AS A WOUND HEALER written by DR. HEMANT D TOSHIKHANE and published by Book Rivers. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bloodsucking Leeches written by Tayler Cole and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 650 different types of leeches. And most want to suck your blood! These real-life vampires are nocturnal, like dark places, and only come out when they get thirsty! But can these bloodsuckers actually help humans? The ancient Egyptians may have been on to something! Readers learn about the habitats, history, and medical uses of the bloodsucking leech. Full-color photographs offer an up close view of these thirsty worms, and fact boxes share more details about their fascinating lives.
Download or read book The Behavior of Leeches written by Wilson Gee and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A treatise on the utility of sangui suction or leech bleeding written by Rees Price (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Further Observations in the Medicinal Leech written by James Rawlins Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adirondack Wildlife written by James Michael Ryan and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive field guide to the habitats and wildlife of the Adirondack State Park
Download or read book Leeches written by David Albahari and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “sardonic and brutal” journey into Serbia’s underground secret societies and conspiracy theories (TheIndependent). The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with his best friend, smoking pot and talking about sex, politics, and life in general. One day, on the shore of the Danube, he spots a man slapping a beautiful woman. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later, he receives a mysterious manuscript whose contents seem to mutate each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript—a collection of fragments on the Kabbalah and the history of the Jews of Zemun and Belgrade—he contacts an old schoolmate, now an eccentric mathematician, and a group of men from the Jewish community. As the narrator delves deeper into arcane topics, he begins to see signs of anti-Semitism, past and present, throughout the city, and he feels impelled to denounce it. But his increasingly passionate columns erupt in a scandal culminating in murder. Following in the footsteps of Foucault’s Pendulum, Leeches is a cerebral adventure and a journey into the underground worlds of secret societies and conspiracy theories.
