Carney

See also: carney

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.

Anagrams

• Craney, Crayne