Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being transmitted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being transmitted, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to be
transmitted - adjective medicine capable of being transmitted from one person to another;
contagious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- adjective (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- adjective inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
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Examples
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He coined the term transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
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What makes a genre story transmissible, which is to say, accessible and meaningful to the reader, is its use of genre tropes.
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What makes a genre story transmissible, which is to say, accessible and meaningful to the reader, is its use of genre tropes.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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That would change though if it became human-to-human transmissible, which is the concern with the Indonesian cluster.
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Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, primarily damage the brain.
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They come on the equivalent of a genetic memory stick -- a string of genes called a transmissible genetic element.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Author Summary Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious progressive fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect humans as well as wild and domestic animals.
unknown title 2009
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Author Summary Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious progressive fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect humans as well as wild and domestic animals.
unknown title 2009
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Author Summary Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious progressive fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect humans as well as wild and domestic animals.
unknown title 2009
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But the news last week of a death at UW Hospital due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease brought to mind once again the dangers of the neurological illnesses known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs.
Madison.com - top 2009
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