These creatures are utilized in some manner by the caste of physicians, not for indiscriminate bleeding as once on Earth, but for certain allied chemical and decoagulant purposes.
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Such creatures may also be used, of course, for less benign purposes, for torture, the extraction of information, punishment and, in the extreme, executions.
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The "leech death" is not a pleasant one.
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These creatures are not to be confused with the leech plant, which supplements its photosynthetic activities with striking, snakelike, at passing objects.
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It has paired, curved, hollow, fanglike thorns, associated with a pulsating, podlike bladder.
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The leech plant can draw a considerable amount of blood in a short time.
She shrank back, as she could, in terror.
These creatures are utilized in some manner by the caste of physicians, not for indiscriminate bleeding as once on Earth, but for certain allied chemical and decoagulant purposes.
Such creatures may also be used, of course, for less benign purposes, for torture, the extraction of information, punishment and, in the extreme, executions.
The "leech death" is not a pleasant one.
These creatures are not to be confused with the leech plant, which supplements its photosynthetic activities with striking, snakelike, at passing objects.
It has paired, curved, hollow, fanglike thorns, associated with a pulsating, podlike bladder.
The leech plant can draw a considerable amount of blood in a short time.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )