Conn's syndrome
- noun
- /kɒnz ˈsɪnˌdroʊm/
- Specialized
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síndrome de Conn
- The patient was diagnosed with Conn's syndrome after presenting with high blood pressure and muscle cramps.
Examples
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Successful treatment of Conn's syndrome often involves surgical removal of the adrenal tumor.
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Low potassium levels in blood tests can be a warning sign of Conn's syndrome.
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Patients with Conn's syndrome often experience muscle weakness.
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Is Conn's syndrome a common condition?
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The patient was diagnosed with Conn's syndrome after presenting with high blood pressure and muscle cramps.
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Successful treatment of Conn's syndrome often involves surgical removal of the adrenal tumor.
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Low potassium levels in blood tests can be a warning sign of Conn's syndrome.
Synonyms
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The body makes too much of a hormone from the adrenal glands, causing high blood pressure and low potassium
Too much aldosterone hormone causes high blood pressure and low potassium
Surface Forms
Morphology
Conn's + syndrome
The phrase combines an eponymous proper name 'Conn's' with 'syndrome', so a B1 learner who knows 'syndrome' will infer it denotes a medical condition named after someone. However, the specific pathology (excess aldosterone, salt/water imbalance, particular symptoms) cannot be derived from the constituents, so the full meaning is not predictable from the parts; the eponymous pattern is cross-linguistically common but only yields the general category, not the details.
Etymology
Conn's syndrome is named after the doctor Jerome W. Conn, who first described the condition in the 1950s when he found people with high blood pressure and low potassium. He showed that a small tumor in the gland above the kidney made too much of the hormone 'aldosterone', causing salt and water balance problems that lead to weakness and muscle cramps, so the condition was named after him.