Arthritis / Acute Gout Attack. Gout is a form of arthritis, hence it causes pain and discomfort in the joints. A typical gout attack is characterized by the sudden onset of severe pain, swelling, warmth, and redness of a joint. The clinical presentation of acute gouty arthritis is not subtle with very few mimics other than a bacterial infection.
1 In UPnP terminology, MiniUPnPc is a UPnP Control Point.  MiniUPnPd, a daemon providing these services to your network from a linux or BSD (or even Solaris) box being the gateway. Following UPnP terminology, MiniUPnPd is a UPnP Device.
Those are essentially drivers for various types of network connections. For example, the WAN Miniport (PPTP) adapter (driver) is used when making a VPN connection to a PPTP VPN server. The WAN Miniport (PPOE) adapter (driver) would be used when your computer is connected directly to a PPOE broadband modem. Removing these adapters (drivers) would break the functionallity that these adapters (drivers) provide.