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How to pronounce haemorrhoid in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hemorrhoid, piles
Type of symptom

Examples of haemorrhoid

haemorrhoid
Most of them looked like they'd only popped out for some humbugs or haemorrhoid cream.
From the tv.uk.msn.com
I don't want to purchase a sandwich in the same place people are getting haemorrhoid cream.
From the guardian.co.uk
I always thought it was haemorrhoid cream that was the most shoplifted article because people are too embarrassed to buy it.
From the guardian.co.uk
Jayesh Manek was a high street chemist who, between dispensing cold-sore creams and haemorrhoid ointment, beat the investment experts at their own game.
From the guardian.co.uk
I'd had heavy bleeding since having children and a haemorrhoid but, after looking at Dr Alinsod's website, I started to think about vaginal tightening, too.
From the guardian.co.uk
We get bags of heavy water shuffled under the muscles in our chests, and sometimes our buttocks, like a built-in haemorrhoid cushion, but one inserted to look sexy.
From the guardian.co.uk
No more physical and mental slowing down caused by beta blockers, or the disabling muscle discomfort statins can cause, or the need for antacids, laxatives and haemorrhoid treatments.
From the guardian.co.uk
Any correction or retraction, if it actually made it to the Daily Fail or Torygraph, would be given 15 words on page 18, bottom of column 6, next to the haemorrhoid cream advert.
From the guardian.co.uk
He gave me cream after the birth and when that didn't help he referred me to hospital for banding, a process where they put an elastic band round the top of the haemorrhoid to cut off the blood flow.
From the express.co.uk
More examples
  • Hemorrhoid: pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter
  • Hemorrhoids (US English) or haemorrhoids (Commonwealth English), are normal vascular structures in the anal canal which help with stool control. They become pathological or known as piles when swollen or inflamed. ...
  • (haemorrhoids) A pathological condition caused by painful masses of dilated veins in swollen anal tissue
  • (Haemorrhoids) Swellings of the blood vessels within the anus. They are very common. The common symptoms are bright red bleeding, pain, itching, swelling and popping out (prolapse) whilst passing a stool or at other times.
  • (Haemorrhoids) (piles) varicose and inflamed veins around the lower end of the bowel situated in the wall of the anus. They are classified as internal, external and mixed depending upon whether they appear beyond the anus. ...
  • (Haemorrhoids) A varicose dilatation of a vein from a persistent increase in venous pressure. Usually it appears as a livid and painful swelling formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around or within the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged.
  • (Haemorrhoids) Piles, varicose veins inside or outside the rectum.
  • Greek haima = blood, and rhoia = to flow, hence likely to bleed.
  • Painful swelling of veins of the anus.