1
: of, relating to, or involving hemorrhoids
2
: rectal
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Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 June 2023
Ointments, some of which have anti-inflammatories, are useful short-term treatments, but steroid-containing hemorrhoidal treatments generally shouldn’t be used for more than a week or so.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
European Christians considered Jews effeminate owing to their circumcisions, deeming them a studious, unathletic, hemorrhoidal people unable to gallop through Palestine bedecked in armor and spearing unbelievers.
—Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
High fiber diets can also benefit our gastrointestinal health by improving bowel habits, improving hemorrhoidal disease, and by preventing diverticular disease.
—Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 17 July 2017
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Most people with a banding procedure do not need anesthesia, and nerve blocks are not used in hemorrhoidal banding because a feeling of pain is a useful indication that the band is not in the best position.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 June 2023
Ointments, some of which have anti-inflammatories, are useful short-term treatments, but steroid-containing hemorrhoidal treatments generally shouldn’t be used for more than a week or so.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
European Christians considered Jews effeminate owing to their circumcisions, deeming them a studious, unathletic, hemorrhoidal people unable to gallop through Palestine bedecked in armor and spearing unbelievers.
—Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
High fiber diets can also benefit our gastrointestinal health by improving bowel habits, improving hemorrhoidal disease, and by preventing diverticular disease.
—Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 17 July 2017
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“Hemorrhoidal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hemorrhoidal. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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hemorrhoidal
1 of 2 adjective
hem·or·rhoid·al
variants
or chiefly British haemorrhoidal
1
: of, relating to, or involving hemorrhoids
2
: rectal
hemorrhoidal
2 of 2 noun
variants
or chiefly British haemorrhoidal
: a hemorrhoidal part (as an artery or vein)
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