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Able to be transmitted. Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
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Able to be transmitted. Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
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Able to transmit a disease; infectious, contagious.
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Because I think from a public health perspective, knowing that you are transmissible and going around transmitting, because sometimes that's not your main intention. I don't want to go around to transmit. But I think knowing that you are transmissible and still engaging in possible acts that might transmit the virus is an irresponsible thing to do.
2026 April 23, Duncan Leatherdale, "Rapist who infected men and boys with HIV jailed" (BBC News) Bindloss said Hall had been "fully and repeatedly" warned about the infection risk he posed, yet chose to keep himself "transmissible" while lying about his status to sexual partners in a "significant degree of premeditation".
Adjective
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
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an inherited disease
familial traits
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genetically transmitted features
inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
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ancestral home
ancestral lore
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hereditary monarchy
patrimonial estate
transmissible tradition