transmissible
pronunciation
How to pronounce transmissible in British English:
UK [træns'mɪsəbl]
How to pronounce transmissible in American English:
US [træns'mɪsəbəl]
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- Adjective:
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity
- inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Word Origin
- transmissible (adj.)
- 1640s, from Latin transmiss-, stem of transmittere "send across, carry over" (see transmit) + -ible. Related: Transmissibility.
Example
- 1. But the mutations alone still didn 't make the virus transmissible between ferrets through respiratory droplets .
- 2. All donors are screened for known transmissible diseases .
- 3. But what mutations would make the virus more easily transmissible ?
- 4. Only the additive genetic variance is transmissible by seed .
- 5. Several circulating h5n1 avian influenza strains already have two of the mutations known to make experimental strains of the virus transmissible between mammals via respiratory droplets .