Unscramble

h 4 e 1 m 3 o 1 r 1 r 1 h 4 o 1 i 1 d 2

10 letters · 19 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter

originFrom Middle English emerowdes, emeroides, emeroydez, from Old French emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoidae, from Ancient Greek αἱμορροΐς (haimorrhoḯs), a feminine adjective from αἱμόρροος (haimórrhoos, “flowing with blood”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) and the root of ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”). Doublet of emerod.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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