Leg pain from degenerative disc disease can also result if the nerve root is compressed. This happens because as the disc degenerates it shrinks and moves, and as a result, there is not as much room for the nerve roots. This is also known as foraminal stenosis. Leg pain from a compressed and inflamed nerve root is typically shooting and electric.
Altruistic behaviour is therefore the opposite of egoistic behaviour. It involves intention to help others when used of human behaviour, but the fact that some animal behaviour is judged to be altruistic indicates that there are two possible bases to a definition: intentionality, and behavioural effects.
behavior typical of that portrayed in a melodrama, i.e., characterized by extremes of emotion. mercuriality. 1. the state or quality of having a lively, fickle, volatile, or erratic attitude or charaeter. 2. an instance of such behavior. â mercurial, adj. milksopism. 1. the state or quality of being a weak and ineffectual person. 2. behavior or attitudes typical of a such a person. mimicism. an intense (and sometimes injurious) tendency to mimicry. mountebankism. boastful and pretentious behavior; quackery or any actions typical of a mountebank. Also mountebankery. muckerism. behavior characteristic of a boorish person.