Carney

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

Carney (plural Carneys)

1. A surname from Irish.
   • 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     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.

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

Carney

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

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.

• Craney, Crayne

English Carney

Carney m or f by sense

1. Carney: an anglo surname from English