Feeding behavior of the medicinal leech,Hirudo medicinalisL.
โ Scribed by Michael H. Dickinson; Charles M. Lent
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 920 KB
- Volume
- 154
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-7594
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Sensilla that line the upper edge of the lip in the leech Hirudo medicinalis and that contain chemoreceptors required for feeding were examined in the scanning and transmission electron microscopes. The sensilla include two size-classes of ciliated button-like mounds--one about 35 microns in diamete
We present a description of the last half of embryonic development in the European medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, based entirely on externally visible morphological features, and establish reliably observable stages during that development. Embryogenesis, from the time fertilized eggs are depo
## Abstract The concentrations of inorganic and organic ions and osmolality in the blood of the medicinal leech, __Hirudo medicinalis__, were determined during normoxia and hypercapnic and hypocapnic hypoxia. In normoxic animals, the blood sodium concentration was 124.5 ยฑ 4.2 mmol/l and the total c