Carney

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English

Proper noun

Carney

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name
  3. A female given name

Noun

Carney (uncountable)

  1. A rare disorder characterized by increased risk of tumors, dark blotches on the skin, and endocrine overactivity.
    • 2003, Toren Finkel, J. Silvio Gutkind, Signal Transduction and Human Disease, →ISBN, page 217:
      In male patients at risk for Carney complex testicular ultrasonography for the early detection of LCCSCT and associated testicular pathology is recommended.
    • 2004, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine:
      The patient's mother has Carney syndrome, with lentigines, cardiac myxoma, fibroadenoma of the breast, and a fibroepithelial polyp of the external auditory canal.
    • 2012, Henry R. Black, William Elliott, Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book, →ISBN:
      Other diagnoses associated with catecholamine-secreting tumors that do not appear to be inherited are the Carney triad (gastric leiomyosarcoma, pulmonary chondroma, and extraadrenal catecholamine-secreting tumors), cholelithiasis, and renal artery stenosis.

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