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CONN'S SYNDROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Conn's syndrome mean? 

CONN'S SYNDROME (noun)
  The noun CONN'S SYNDROME has 1 sense:

1. disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis; usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosteroneplay

  Familiarity information: CONN'S SYNDROME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONN'S SYNDROME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis; usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosterone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Conn's syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)


 Context examples 


It can be associated with the overproduction of glucocorticoids (Cushing's syndrome), androgenic or estrogenic steroids (adrenogenital syndrome), or mineralocorticoids (Conn's syndrome). (Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, 3rd ed.) — 2003

(Adrenal Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It can be associated with the overproduction of glucocorticoids (Cushing's syndrome), androgenic or estrogenic steroids (adrenogenital syndrome), or mineralocorticoids (Conn's syndrome).

(Adrenal Cortex Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)



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