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Hemorrhoids (or haemorrhoids), also known as piles, are vascular structures in the anal canal. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In their normal state, they are cushions that help with stool control. [ 2 ] They become a disease when swollen or inflamed ; the unqualified term hemorrhoid is often used to refer to the disease. [ 8 ]
This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them. Places whose official names include a (Modern) Hebrew form.
Unlike the Paleo-Hebrew writing script, the modern Hebrew script has five letters that have special final forms, called sofit (Hebrew: סופית, meaning in this context "final" or "ending") form, used only at the end of a word, somewhat as in the Greek or in the Arabic and Mandaic alphabets.
Chaya is a Hebrew female given name (Hebrew: חַיָּה Ḥayyah, Classical Hebrew:, Israeli Hebrew: [ˈχaja, ħaˈja]; English pronunciations: / ˈ h ɑː j ɑː / HAH-yah, / ˈ x ɑː j ɑː / KHAH-yah). With its literal meaning "living", it is considered to be a feminine couterpart of the Hebrew masculine given name Haim.
In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud (Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
The rules for article or section naming provided below apply only when there is no standard or official Anglicized name. However, the rules below apply to all cases of direct in-line transliterations which follow the Hebrew spelling, and may be radically different from the main Hebrew name (which could also be a translation), thus:
(lēləyā) in Aramaic, לילה (layla) in Hebrew, لَيْل (layl) or لَيْلَى (layla) in Arabic, and ܠܹܠܝܵܐ (lēlyā) in Syriac. In Arabic and Hebrew, the word Leila or Laila means "night", "dark" [1] and the name is often given to girls born during the night, signifying "daughter of the night". [citation needed]
Geresh (׳ in Hebrew: גֶּרֶשׁ [1] or גֵּרֶשׁ [2] [3], or medieval [ˈɡeːɾeːʃ]) is a sign in Hebrew writing. It has two meanings. An apostrophe-like sign (also known colloquially as a chupchik) [4] placed after a letter: as a diacritic that modifies the pronunciation of some letters (only in modern Hebrew),