Associations to the word «Transmissible»

Wiktionary

TRANSMISSIBLE, adjective. Able to be transmitted
TRANSMISSIBLE, adjective. (medicine) capable of being transmitted from one person to another; contagious
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY, noun. (disease) (neurology) Any fatal, incurable degenerative disease of the brain transmitted by prions.

Dictionary definition

TRANSMISSIBLE, adjective. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection.
TRANSMISSIBLE, adjective. Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features".
TRANSMISSIBLE, adjective. Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition".

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