Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEM'OR-RHOIDS, n. [Gr. αἱμορῥοις; αἱμα, blood, and ῥοος, a flowing.]

A discharge of blood from the vessels of the anus; the piles; in Scripture, emerods. The term is also applied to tumors formed by a morbid dilatation of the hemorrhoidal veins. When they do not discharge blood, they are called blind piles; when they occasionally emit blood, bleeding or open piles. Cyc. Parr.