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hemorrhoids

  • plural
    of hemorrhoid.
    hemorrhoid
    noun
    Usually hemorrhoids 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.

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Endoscopists then examined the participants for signs of hemorrhoids.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026

Up to 40% of men and women will have hemorrhoids at some point in their lives, according to Dr. Ali Rezaie, a gastroenterologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

Subsequent colonoscopies revealed that those bathroomgoers had a 46 percent higher risk of hemorrhoids than those who didn’t use their phones.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

“Here are some of the things that are more popular than Congress: hemorrhoids, Nickelback, traffic jams, cockroaches, root canals, colonoscopies, herpes,” Schwarzenegger said in a 2017 Facebook video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

Those itchy, sore hemorrhoids that make sitting uncomfortable?

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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