transmissible

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The problem is, the knowledge of the code base is not easily transmissible from people to people.

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Quick take

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

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The clearest senses and uses of transmissible gathered in one view.

adjective

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

adjective

occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"

adjective

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for transmissible.

adjective

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

adjective

occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"

adjective

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

See also: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial

Example sentences

The problem is, the knowledge of the code base is not easily transmissible from people to people.

Ebola Reston has shown signs of being transmissible via air.

The assumption was that it's not easily transmissible, but it's spreading, so perhaps that assumption is not as true as we thought.

I thought Ebola wasn't transmissible until symptoms appear.

If 10 passages through the lab animals was sufficient for the virus to become transmissible by air, then this will happen in nature.

Ebola patients also produce a lot of bodily fluids as the disease progresses and the virus is a lot more transmissible than HIV.

The example I've read is that we don't worry about HIV becoming transmissible by air, and it is thought to mutate more quickly than Ebola.

Even if it were a more easily transmissible strain of ebola, if you're not in a housing unit sharing air with people who are infected, you're pretty safe.

If they were handling the material directly, there's a chance they contaminated themselves and their clothing, which could be transmissible.

It could be that this variant is transmissible by air in a lab setting, but is critically vulnerable to environmental factors in the wild.

As chrisamiller says, cancer is generally not transmissible.

Even if memes are not genetically heritable, they are still transmissible, and therefore still subject to selection pressures.

So in order to become transmissible by air, it would have to mutate 2 different major adaptations and completely change everything about itself.

"make it more easily transmissible _or_more_pathogenic_"You probably should be more concerned about the flu or the common cold becoming lethal than about Ebola becoming airborne.

I do not intend this as a contradiction but merely a tangential tidbit: Devil facial tumor disease [0] is an example of an actual, transmissible cancer in mammals, showing that it is at least possible.

"The possibility of an airborne-transmissible Ebola virus is one 'that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private,' wrote Osterholm.