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Acid Ceramidase Deficiency

Acid ceramidase deficiency is a extremely rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease that cause an accumulation of fatty material lipids leading to abnormalities in the joints, liver, throat, tissues and central nervous system.
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Types of Incontinence

Urinary incontinence is a term given to involuntary leakage of urine. Disease impacts the quality of life of a person and is a distressing situation. Urinary incontinence generally results secondary to a underlying medical condition which is often treatable.
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Gibraltar Fever or Brucellosis

It is a infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache.
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CPR

CPR is an emergency medical procedure for patient with cardiac arrest. It involves physical interventions to create artificial circulation through chest compressions and also involves the rescuer exhaling in to the patient to inflate the lungs and pass oxygen in to the blood which is called artificial respiration.
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Toilet training in children or potty training

Toilet training or potty training is training the children to use toilets for urination and defecation
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ZollingerEllison syndrome (ZES)

ZES or Zollinger Ellison syndrome is a disorder which is characterized by the tumor formation in the gastrointestinal tract. Tumor generally occurs in the head of the pancreas or in the small intestine especially in the duodenum, or in both of the places. This tumor produces excess gastrin hormone which in turn stimulates the acid producing cells of the stomach to produce excess gastric acid, leading to peptic ulcers in the duodenum. The tumor is termed as Gastrinoma as it secretes Gastrin.
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Ginkgo Biloba

Ginkgo Biloba, It is also known as Maidenhair tree. It is unique species of tree which is used in traditional chinese medicine. It helsp to sharpen the concentration, mental focus and memory. It also increases the flow of oxygen rich blood to the brain.
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Letterer Siwe Disease

One of the acute variant of Langerhans cell histiocytosis i.e. Eosinophilic Granuloma is Abt Letterer Siwe disease or syndrome. It is a rare and fatal condition in which there is Acute, disseminated and rapidly progressive form of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis is found. Langerhans cell histiocytosis is characterized by proliferation and accumulation of a specific type of white blood cell known as histiocyte in the various tissues and organs of the body leading to various lesions which if contains some granules are termed as Langerhans Cells.
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Acid maltase deficiency

Acid maltase deficiency is a neuro muscular, autosomal recessive disease metabolic disorder characterized by an excessive accumulation of glycogen within lysosome-derived vacuoles in nearly all types of cells.
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Status Epilepticus

Status epilepticus is defined as 30 minutes of continuous seizure activity or a series of seizures without return to full consciousness between the seizures. Shorter period of seizure activity causes neuronal injury and that seizure self-termination is unlikely after 5 minutes, times as brief as 5 minutes is defined as status epilepticus. Generalized refers to abnormal excessive cortical electrical activity, while convulsive refers to the motor activity of a seizure. Subtle status epilepticus consists of electrical seizure activity that endures when the associated movements are fragmentary or even absent.
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