hemorrhoid

[ hem-uh-roid, hem-roid ]

noun

Usually hemorrhoids .Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid ) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid ).

Origin of hemorrhoid

1350–1400; Middle English emoroides (plural) <Latin haemorrhoid(a) <Greek haimorroḯda (adj.) discharging blood

Leeches applied once a fortnight or month to the hemorrhoidal veins to produce a new habit.
Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus Darwin
Hemorrhoidal veins, or piles, are occasionally met with, generally in horses which run at pasture.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse | United States Department of Agriculture
In some few instances hemoptysis has preceded convalescence, as has also a bleeding from the hemorrhoidal veins.
Observations on Madness and Melancholy | John Haslam
Doubtful, however, are alleged cases of gastric hemorrhage taking the place of suppressed hemorrhoidal bleeding or of epistaxis.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II | Various
The first system is made up of the superior hemorrhoidal, the second of the remaining veins.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II | Various

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