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TRANSMITTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transmittable mean?
• TRANSMITTABLE (adjective)
The adjective TRANSMITTABLE has 1 sense:
1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Familiarity information: TRANSMITTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Synonyms:
catching; communicable; contagious; contractable; transmissible; transmittable
Similar:
infectious (easily spread)
Context examples
A rare transmittable degenerative disorder of the brain caused by prions.
(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
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