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AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does airborne transmission mean?
• AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION (noun)
The noun AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION has 1 sense:
1. a transmission mechanism in the which the infectious agent is spread as an aerosol and usually enters a person through the respiratory tract
Familiarity information: AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A transmission mechanism in the which the infectious agent is spread as an aerosol and usually enters a person through the respiratory tract
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("airborne transmission" is a kind of...):
transmission mechanism (any mechanism whereby an infectious agent is spread from a reservoir to a human being)
Context examples
They discovered that airborne transmission was associated with a single genetic change in the engineered virus’s hemagglutinin that gave it the ability to bind to mammalian-type α2,6 SA of a particular class (long chain) without the loss of the other introduced changes that had made it a α2,3 SA binding type.
(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)
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