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You may be looking for the Regulan bloodworm.

Regellian blood worms are organisms known for their size. Presumably, they are leech-like, swelling as they feed from their prey.

When Noah Lessing was ten, he once walked through a patch of poison ivy and swelled up like a Regellian blood worm. (VOY: "Equinox, Part II")

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