Carney

See also: carney

English

Etymology

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• (carcinogenic disorder): Named after American pathologist John Aidan Carney

Proper noun

Carney (plural Carneys)

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

Derived terms

• Carney (n.)
• Carney triad

Proper noun

Carney

1. A number of places in the United States.
2. A number of places in Ireland.

Noun

Carney (uncountable)

1. (pathology) 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.

See also

• Kearney
• Kearny

Anagrams

• Craney, Crayne

French

Etymology

English Carney

Proper noun

Carney m or f by sense

1. Carney: an anglo surname from English