Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids , noun, plural

[Latin haemorrhoidae, pl., Greek {not transcribed}, sing., {not transcribed} (sc. {not transcribed}), pl., veins liable to discharge blood, hemorrhoids, from {not transcribed} flowing with blood; a"i^ma blood + {not transcribed} to flow: compare French hémorroides, hémorrhoides. See Rheum.]

(Medicine) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.