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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

[L.

pila

a ball. Cf.

a medicine.]

(Med.)

The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called

hemorrhoids

. See

[The singular

pile

is sometimes used.]

Blind piles

hemorrhoids which do not bleed.

Noun.

plu.

The hemorrhoids, a disease.

See also: piles, pilés, pīles, and piłeś

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