Bronchitis Overview. Acute bronchitis is the sudden inflammation of the tracheobronchial tree, which comprises the trachea, or windpipe (tube that leads from the throat to the lungs) and the bronchi (bronchial tubes, air passages of the lungs).
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bequest. n. the gift of personal property under the terms of a will. Bequests are not always outright, but may be conditional upon the happening or non-happening of an event (such as marriage), or executory in which the gift is contingent upon a future event.here is, however, a distinction between them. A bequest is applied, more properly, to a gift by will of a legacy, that is, of personal property; devise is properly a gift by testament of real property. Vide Devise.