The causes of leg pain can be musculoskeletal, neurological, or vascular. Shin splints and stress fractures can result from repetitive sports, such as running. Leg pain can sometimes indicate a serious vascular problems.
Noun. 1. altruism-the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others. selflessness. unselfishness-the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others; rural people show more devotion and unselfishness than do their urban cousins.
a moral principle of behavior; the readiness to unselfishly sacrifice oneâs own interests in favor of the interests of another. The term altruism was introduced into ethics by the French philosopher A. Comte as the opposite of egoism.