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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See hemorrhoid.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A disease originating in the morbid dilatation of the veins of the lower part of the rectum, and upon the verge of the anus; hemorrhoids. Constipation favors their development.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Plural form of pile.
  2. n. pathology Haemorrhoids.
  3. n. informal A large amount of.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter
  2. n. a large number or amount

Etymologies

  1. Middle English piles, from Medieval Latin pilī, from Latin pila, ball. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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