Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hemorrhoids
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also patron of cab drivers and gardeners; he is invoked against hemorrhoids.
▪ Also patron of gardeners; he is invoked against hemorrhoids and syphilis.
▪ Gayle Garrett wondered if her friend had hemorrhoids.
▪ Our fathers wore out their backs at heavy, senseless labor, pulled their own teeth, lived with massive hemorrhoids.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hemorrhoids
Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. Pill a medicine.] (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids.
Note: [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
Blind piles, hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hemorrhoids
plural of hemorrhoid; late 14c., emeroudis, from Old French emorroides (13c.), from Latin hæmorrhoidae, from Greek haimorrhoides (phlebes) "(veins) liable to discharge blood," plural of haimorrhois, from haima "blood" (see -emia) + rhoos "a stream, a flowing," from rhein "to flow" (see rheum). Related: Hemmorhoidal.
Wiktionary
hemorrhoids
alt. (plural of hemorrhoid English) n. (plural of hemorrhoid English)