Sentences with phrase «leeching blood»

If you do not, can not, say for certain what is happening, then acting on your belief is tantamount to leeching blood, or tossing virgins into the volcano.

It's like leeching blood out of our body.»

Surveying leech blood is just one of many ways to collect environmental DNA that have emerged in recent years.

Not exact matches

Scientists say that eating sugar is actually worse than eating nothing because it not only provides zero nutritional value, but it leeches nutrients and minerals from your bones, blood, and body.

Glad Wilshere has been found out for the blood sucking leech he really is.

Think about how far we have come (think leeches and blood letting).

I do however profusely apologize to Leeches and Vampires and other Blood suckers in making a comparison with them to the likes of Mitt Romney.

Blood - sucking leeches and slim, coiled microbes also abound.

The 8 - centimeter - long leeches were once abundant throughout freshwater streams and ponds of western Europe, where they fed on blood from amphibians or mammals.

(Doctors use leeches to drain pooled blood until veins can regrow.)

Plasticizers and other softening agents used to make blood bags can leech into the blood while it is being stored and then show up in urine samples after that blood is given to an athlete.

Likewise, sequencing blood from mosquitoes or leeches, known as invertebrate DNA (iDNA) sampling, can reveal which species they have been feeding on.

The duo allowed leeches to feast on sheep's blood until they were full, measuring both the change in the length of their segments as they fed and the rate at which they spread as they crawled.

In fact, such so - called medicinal leeches are standard tools for preventing blood clotting after reconstructive surgery.

Scientists, however, may have figured out a way to one - up Nature's clot - busters: a newly developed mechanical leech sucks blood better than its living counterparts do.

Leeches use venom as a numbing agent, a way to mask their presence so as to feast on their victims» blood unnoticed.

A broad survey conducted across southern Asia reinforces the idea that the mammal biodiversity of an area can be determined by looking at the DNA found in leeches» blood meals.

The team resorted to tempting the creatures with blood - filled condoms warmed under a heat - lamp, and putting the leeches into syringes attached to blood - filled test tubes sealed by a thin film.

Gilbert, his colleague Mads Bertelsen and their team had fed goat blood to medicinal leeches (Hirudo spp.)-- something that is «a lot harder than it sounds», says Gilbert.

When calcium is deficient blood calcium can actually rise by leeching it excessively from bones.

Attempting to neutralize stomach acid to treat an uneasy stomach is as wise as treating an excess of blood cells with leeches.

So when I got into the business I realized that people who had an impacted colon were impacted all the time, all of the garbage that it was accumulating in their system would leech into their blood stream in their lymphatic system and it would come out through their pores.

A gold digger will only suck off your money like a leech suck out bloods from your body.

Both are underwritten, but neither more so (nor more unforgivably so) than Plummer's ageless Van Helsing, who, apparently, has kept himself alive for a century by shooting up with Dracula's leech - harvested blood.

There are blood - sucking leeches and gangly, deformed researchers working their mad science.

The financial advisor and bond counsel leeches that suck the blood out of the school and college district taxpayers with their exorbitant fees, often illegally commingled with campaign services, are the ones that will be hit hardest.

This means that the fleas are leeching off the new red blood cells to such a degree that the body can't keep up with the demand.

The blood these Parasites leech off your pet may lead to anemia.

Once I hiked up to a stunning waterfall here in Indonesia and only realized at the end of the walk that there was a leech sucking up my blood, though it was small (and not so much blood like the one on your post)-- but I also screamed, A LOT!

They don't need the «services» of the know - it - all leeches who draw more communal blood, a little here, a little there, than they recontribute to the mix.