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Definition: HEMORRHOIDS |
HEMORRHOIDSNoun plural1. 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. |
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Botanical | Varicose veins of the lower rectum and anus. Treated with Acacia, Acnistus, Albizia, Aloe, Avicennia, Caesalpinia, Capsicum, Carica, Cassia, Centella, Chenopodium, Cissus, Coccoloba, Cocos, Crescentia, Dendropogon, Guazuma, Heliotropium, Hibiscus, Jatropha, Luffa, Mangifera, Mucuna, Pachyrhizus, Piper, Pistia, Pothomorphe, Psidium, Renealmia, Ricinus, Scoparia, Spondias, Tamarindus, Tillandsia. (references) |
Health | Varicosities of the hemorrhoidal venous plexuses. (references) |
Medicine | Abnormally large or symptomatic conglomerates of blood vessels, supporting tissues, and overlying mucous membrane or anorectal skin. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HEMORRHOIDS |
| English words defined with "HEMORRHOIDS": Blind piles ♦ Emeroids ♦ haemorrhoidectomy, Hemorrhoidal, hemorrhoidectomy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HEMORRHOIDS": Anoscopy ♦ external haemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids ♦ in preparation, internal haemorrhoids, internal hemorrhoids ♦ Preparation H, prolapsed internal hemorrhoids ♦ Sclerosing Solutions, Sclerotherapy, Sodium Tetradecyl Sulfate. (references) |
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Screenplays | He's got hemorrhoids, Franklin. (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) | |
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Health | In some cases, hemorrhoids must be treated surgically. (references) | |
This is the best method for permanent removal of hemorrhoids. (references) | ||
Although many people have hemorrhoids, not all experience symptoms. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "HEMORRHOIDS": external hemorrhoids ♦ internal hemorrhoids ♦ prolapsed internal hemorrhoids. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "HEMORRHOIDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hemorroide (haemorrhoid, haemorrhoids, hemorrhoid, piles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | البواسير (haemorrhoids), داء البواسير (haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хемороиди (haemorrhoids, piles), маясъл (haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hæmorroider (haemorrhoids), hæmoroider (haemorrhoids), tumores haemorrhoidales (haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aambeien (haemorhoids, haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hemorroidi (haemorrhoids), peräpukama (haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hémorroïde (hemorrhoid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hämorrhoiden (haemorrhoids, piles, strangulated haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αιμορροϊδέσ (piles), αιμορροϊδα (haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aranyér (haemorrhoids, hemorrhoid, piles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bawasir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emorroidi (haemorrhoids, piles), emorroide (haemorrhoids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "疾 , " (piles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じしつ (infections or diseases of the ear, one's own room, stupefaction), じ (be affectionate to, below, character, child, emperor's seal, hand-writing, love, next, order, piles, pity, sequence, times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emorrhoidshay varizes vesicais (hemorrhoids of the bladder, vesical hemorrhoids). (various references) hemoroidi (haemorrhoids), šuljevi. (various references) hemorroides (haemorhoids, haemorrhoids, piles), hemorroide (haemorrhoids, hemorrhoid), almorranas (haemorhoids, haemorrhoids), almorrana (haemorrhoids, pile). (various references) hemorrojder (haemorrhoids). (various references) hemoroid (haemorrhoids, piles), mayasıl (chilblain, piles), basur (haemorrhoids, piles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | absaniae, anani, anania, ananiae, ananiaeque, ananiam, ananias, aneni, anes, ani, anos, anus, capitulo, capitulorum, capitulum, tumores haemorrhoidales. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"HEMORRHOIDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haemorrhoid, haemorrhoids, hemarrhoid, hemerrhoids, hemmorhoid, hemmorhoids, hemmorrhoids, hemmorrohids, hemorhoid, hemorohids, hemorrohids, hemorroid, hemorroids, hemrrhoids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HEMORRHOIDS" (pronounced he"meroy'dz) |
| 4 | -er oy' d z | asteroids. |
| 3 | -oy' d z | adenoids, alkaloids, corticosteroids. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-h-i-m-o-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: hemorrhoid. | |
-3 letters: heirdoms, misorder, moidores. | |
-4 letters: dormers, heirdom, heroism, hoodier, hoodies, horsier, misdoer, moidore, moodier, moorier, moorish, oroides, remorid, roomers, roomier, roomies, shirred. | |
-5 letters: dermis, derris, dimers, dories, dormer, dormie, dorser, driers, hemoid, hiders, hirers, hoised, homers, homier, hoodie, hordes, horrid, horsed, hosier, isomer, modish, moires, moored, morose, morris, morros, moshed, mosher, orders, ormers, oroide, reshod, riders, rimers, rimose, rodeos, romeos, roomed, roomer, roomie, roosed, rooser, rosier, shooed, shored, sordor. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-h-i-m-o-o-r-r-s" | |
+2 letters: hemorrhoidals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 4D 4F 52 52 48 4F 49 44 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -- --- .-. .-. .... --- .. -.. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01001101 01001111 01010010 01010010 01001000 01001111 01001001 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E M O R R H O I D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 004D 004F 0052 0052 0048 004F 0049 0044 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4239474952524249433853 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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