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transmissible

[ trans-mis-uh-buh l, tranz- ]

/ trænsˈmɪs ə bəl, trænz- /

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adjective

capable of being transmitted.

Origin of transmissible

1635–45; < Latin trānsmiss(us) (see transmission) + -ible

OTHER WORDS FROM transmissible

trans·mis·si·bil·i·ty, noun un·trans·mis·si·ble, adjective

Words nearby transmissible

transmethylation, transmigrant, transmigrate, transmigration, transmisogyny, transmissible, transmissible encephalopathy, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, transmission, transmission density, transmission line

Example sentences from the Web for transmissible

And while we cannot speak of pauperism being hereditary, the qualities that go to make up the pauper are transmissible.

Woman |William J. Robinson
For the race it is only the natural qualities of its future parents that matter, for only these are transmissible.

Woman and Womanhood |C. W. Saleeby
Dupaul states that the infection is transmissible through the atmosphere for several hundred yards.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse |United States Department of Agriculture
Are the merits of making money so great that they are transmissible to posterity?

Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) |Sir Leslie Stephen

But only such changes are transmissible to future generations as have resulted from modifications arising in the idioplasm.

The Whence and the Whither of Man |John Mason Tyler

Medical definitions for transmissible

transmissible

[ trăns-mĭs′ə-bəl, trănz- ]

adj.

Capable of being conveyed from one person to another.