See Also: Mossi(encyclopedia)
Mossi(dictionary)
Mossi states(encyclopedia)
gaucher's disease(medicine)
Gaucher's disease(dictionary)
Gaucher disease(health)
gaucher disease(medicine)
Gaucher cells(medicine)
Gaucher disorder(medicine)
Gaucher's disease(health)

Gaucher disease (health) and Mossi (sh)


Gaucher disease (health)


A series of 5 diseases due to deficient activity of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase, leading to accumulation of glucocerebroside in tissues of the body. The 5 types of Gaucher disease encompass a continuum of clinical findings from a lethal form before or just after birth to a form so mild that it may not be diagnosed until old age. All 5 types of Gaucher disease are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.





Mossi (sh)




People of Burkina Faso and Other parts of western Africa, mainly Mali and Togo.

They speak Moore, a Gur language of the Niger-Congo family. Mossi society, organized as in the former Mossi states (งใ 1500-1895), is divided into royalty, nobles, commoners, and formerly slaves. The morho naba ("big lord") occupies a court in Ouagadougou. In the colonial era the Mossi acted as trading intermediaries between the forest states and the cities of the Niger. Today most of the nearly six million Mossi are sedentary farmers.