Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical, transmitting power, specifically for radiation, of a substance or medium; perviousness or diathermancy.
- noun The character of being transmissible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being transmissible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
transmissible - noun countable The extent to which something is transmissible
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Examples
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The authors also go on to explain that the danger posed by a virus isn't based solely on its lethality, but also on its transmissibility, which is the ability to jump from animals to humans and to survive by mutating to adapt to its new human host.
OpEdNews - Diary: Scientific paper points to possible laboratory origin of swine flu 2009
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Smith gestures toward a definition of epidemics that focuses on its transmissibility, via communication or transportation lines, though in some cases, the term comes awfully close to existing in the eye of the beholder.
Robert Teitelman: The Causes of Systemic Disasters Robert Teitelman 2012
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So if a virus like 1918 gained easy human transmissibility, it could make the 1918 pandemic -- the deadliest plague ever -- look like the regular flu.
Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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Should a pig become co-infected with both strains, a hybrid mutant could theoretically arise with human transmissibility of swine flu and the human lethality of bird flu.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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Should a pig become co-infected with both strains, a hybrid mutant could theoretically arise with human transmissibility of swine flu and the human lethality of bird flu.
Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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Should a pig become co-infected with both strains, a hybrid mutant could theoretically arise with human transmissibility of swine flu and the human lethality of bird flu.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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There are also cultural beliefs in play regarding the usage of condoms and transmissibility of the disease.
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So if a virus like 1918 gained easy human transmissibility, it could make the 1918 pandemic -- the deadliest plague ever -- look like the regular flu.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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There are also cultural beliefs in play regarding the usage of condoms and transmissibility of the disease.
Zimbabwe -- 30 years later -- A Conversation with Amnesty International USA's Sarah Hager 2010
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So if a virus like 1918 gained easy human transmissibility, it could make the 1918 pandemic -- the deadliest plague ever -- look like the regular flu.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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