haemorrhoids

/ ˈhɛməˌrɔɪdz /

plural noun

1. Nontechnical name: piles. pathol swollen and twisted veins in the region of the anus and lower rectum, often painful and bleeding

Other Word Forms

• haemorrhoidal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of haemorrhoids¹

C14: from Latin haemorrhoidae (plural), from Greek, from haimorrhoos discharging blood, from haimo- _haemo- + rhein to flow

Example Sentences

Michael had developed stage 4 haemorrhoids - the most severe type - she said.

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Changes to our bowel movements could just be stress, blood in the toilet after we poo could be inflammatory bowel disease or haemorrhoids.

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Fraudsters posing as the young student sent a message to her father, saying she had a case of haemorrhoids that she was embarrassed to talk about.

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Untold millions suffer from haemorrhoids – in the US alone, some estimates run to 125 million – and millions more have related conditions such as colonic inflammation.

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The author can be derailed by trivia — witness a grisly account of Heinlein’s haemorrhoids — and by his fascination for clandestine love affairs and fractured marriages.

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