Middle English Dictionary Entry
emoroid(es n. (plural, rarely singular)
Entry Info
| Forms | emoroid(es n. (plural, rarely singular) Also emer-, amer-, -ois, -odes, -audes, -oudes, -andes, -a(u)ntes. |
| Etymology | ML & OF (L haemorrhoida the h. vein). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Hemorrhoids, esp. the bleeding kind; def ~, hemorrhoids that do not bleed; also, the presence of hemorrhoids as constituting a morbid condition. [Cp. figes, piles.]
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)95b/b : Ypocras seiþ to hem þat heleþ olde Emeroides, but if he leue one vnhelid it is perile.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)201a/b : Iaspis..staunchiþ menstrual blood and emerodes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)263a/b, b/a : If he þat haþ þe emerowdes sitteþ on leouns skynnes þe emerowdes passeþ away fro him.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)289/35 : Wexingis þat ben clepid emeroidis, summe þei falliþ wiþoute þe hole of a mannes ers & summe wiþinne.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)291/5 : If þe place of þe emeroide make no greet akynge.. & if þou wolt drie hem..do þerto..vnguentum ruptorium or touche hem wiþ an hoot iren.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)55/20,25 : Þe veynes apperyng in þe lure when þai flwe.i. ren..ar called emeroydez..Lewed men and vnexperte men calleþ al þe infirmitez bredyng in þe lure emeroydez, or pilez, or fics.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)56/7 : If þer appere..in þe lure bolnyngs blo or blak, or rednez to þe quantite of a bene or gretter..sich bene called of Avicen deef emeroydez, for þer rynneþ noþing out of þam.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)139 : Emerawntys or emerowdys: Emorrois.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)100/271 : Emerauntis or piles.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)46/29 : For þe pylys and for þe emerawdys.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)136/26 : The salwe..gracia dei..is good for fykys, for ameraundys.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)123.67 (v.2:p.314) : The wumman .. was delyueryd from the blody emerowdys.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)107 : [Topaz] helpeþ hem þat han þe emoroides & swageþ him.
2.
The hemorrhoidal veins about the anus, the distention of which gives rise to the disease.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)95b/a : Emoroydes beþ five veynes þat strecchiþ out at þe ers, of þe whiche veynes comeþ diuers passiouns and euelis.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)289/20 : Þe blood þat comeþ to a manner ers by veynes þat ben clepid emoroides is grettere blood þan ony blood of his bodi.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)96a/b : The emoroydes ben swellynges..in the hedes of the veynes þatt ben cleped the emoroydes..þerefore lanfranke saide wel þat emoroys was þe comune name of þe membre and of þe sekenesse.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)93b/b : Flux of humours in þe heuedz or endez of þe veynez emoraidez.
3.
apium of emoroides, pilewort (Ficaria verna).
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)215b/b : Apium of emoroydes haþ þt name for pouder þerof yleyd þerto fordryeþ þe bledynge.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)73b/b : Blodelesse of þat veine..openneþ þe orifice of þe Emoroides.
Note: New phrase.
Note: Quot. belongs to sense 1.
Note: Gloss: orifice of the ~, the anus.
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section may be incomplete and / or may need revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED.--notes per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.109ra (3.18) : Emoraide ar taken in 2 wise: som for certeyn veyns þat comen fro 'kilis' to þe ers and ende in the ers hole; and somtym for a sekenesse of þe same veyns. & alle is called emorayes in the speche.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.110rb (3.18) : Emoraydes ar 5 veyns þat ende in þe selfe cercle of 'longaoun,' i. in þe sides of þe ers-hole.
Note: Additional quots., ?sense 2. New spelling: emoraides, emoraide, emoraies.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.30vb (2.3) : By þo veyns & in þo veyns, meny men hauen þe flux of blode, wiþ scharpe & huge peyn. & þat is callede in Englisshe 'þe emoroys.'
Note: Additional quot., sense 1.. New spelling: emorois.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. amerands (pl.).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. deaf emoroides (pl.).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. emoroides (pl.).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. emorois (sg. or pl.).