Definitions of piles

1. Hemorrhoids, which see.

2. Pathol. Same as HEMORRHOIDS; the popular term.

3. A disease of the veins at the extremity of the rectum, assuming a knotted or clustered form around the anus, called bleeding- piles when there is a discharge of blood from them, and blind- piles when there is none.

4. pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter