noun
- Hemorrhoids; a medical condition involving swollen veins in the rectal area.
Usage: archaic or biblical; plural form; also spelled 'hemorrhoids' in modern usage
Examples
- The biblical text mentions emerods as a plague afflicting the Philistines.
- In older medical texts, emerods was a common term for the condition now called hemorrhoids.
- The King James Bible uses the word emerods in several passages describing afflictions.