Associations to the word «Hemorrhoid»

Wiktionary

HEMORRHOID, noun. (often in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.

Dictionary definition

HEMORRHOID, noun. Pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope