TRANSMITTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transmitted mean? 

• TRANSMITTED (adjective)
  The adjective TRANSMITTED has 1 sense:

1. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

  Familiarity information: TRANSMITTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSMITTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

Synonyms:

familial; genetic; hereditary; inherited; transmissible; transmitted

Context example:

genetically transmitted features

Similar:

heritable; inheritable (capable of being inherited)

 Context examples 

Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite, which is transmitted to people through mosquitoes.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Though disease caused by Powassan virus is rare—most people who become infected with Powassan virus do not develop any symptoms—the virus can be transmitted very rapidly.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

It can also be transmitted through sexual contact or from mother to child during pregnancy or around the time of birth.

(DNA vaccines protect monkeys against Zika virus, NIH)

The signal is then transmitted to Pyk2 and to the small G protein Rac1 but not Cdc42.

(Angiotensin II Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A coded value specifying the form in which the entity is transmitted.

(Communication Mode Code, NCI Thesaurus)

The quantity of 280nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.

(Absorbance at 280nm, NCI Thesaurus)

The quantity of 260nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.

(Absorbance at 260nm, NCI Thesaurus)

The condition is always transmitted through autosomal dominant inheritance.

(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2A, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another.

(Message, NCI Thesaurus)