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Farber disease (also known as Farber’s lipogranulomatosis ceramidase deficiency Fibrocytic dysmucopolysaccharidosis and Lipogranulomatosis) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease marked by a deficiency in enzyme ceramidase that causes an accumulation of fatty material lipids leading to abnormalities in the joints liver throat tissues and central nervous system. Normally the enzyme ceramidase breaks down fatty material in the body’s cells.