transmissible
IPA: trænzmˈɪsʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Able to be transmitted.
- (medicine, of a disease) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
- (radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
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Examples of "transmissible" in Sentences
- The swine flu is transmissible.
- Is it a sexually transmissible agent
- The parasite is not transmissible to humans.
- It is a highly variable and transmissible virus.
- FMDV is a highly variable and transmissible virus.
- He coined the term transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
- Feral populations can also pass on transmissible infections to domestic herds.
- Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, primarily damage the brain.
- They come on the equivalent of a genetic memory stick -- a string of genes called a transmissible genetic element.
- That would change though if it became human-to-human transmissible, which is the concern with the Indonesian cluster.
- What makes a genre story transmissible, which is to say, accessible and meaningful to the reader, is its use of genre tropes.
- 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.
- 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.
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