carney

plural carneys

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of carny.

present singular third person carneys · participle present carneying · participle past carneyed · past carneyed

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of carny.

plural Carneys

1. A surname from Irish.

   White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. administration was making clear in conversations with American firms that it would be inappropriate for senior executives to make the trip to St. Petersburg.

   2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business

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

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

1. uncountablemedicineA rare disorder characterized by increased risk of tumors, dark blotches on the skin, and endocrine overactivity.

   In male patients at risk for Carney complex testicular ultrasonography for the early detection of LCCSCT and associated testicular pathology is recommended.

   2003, Toren Finkel, J. Silvio Gutkind, Signal Transduction and Human Disease, →ISBN, page 217

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   The patient's mother has Carney syndrome, with lentigines, cardiac myxoma, fibroadenoma of the breast, and a fibroepithelial polyp of the external auditory canal.

   2004, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

   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.

   2012, Henry R. Black, William Elliott, Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book, →ISBN