communicable
[kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-buh l]
- capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- talkative; communicative.
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Origin of communicable
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin commūnicābilis, equivalent to commūnicā(re) (see communicate) + -bilis -ble
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The presence of false membranes in one form of mammitis in cows does not necessarily imply its communicability to man.
Special Report on Diseases of CattleU.S. Department of Agriculture
communicable
- capable of being communicated
- (of a disease or its causative agent) capable of being passed on readily
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Word Origin and History for communicability
communicable
adj.
late 14c., from Old French communicable, from Late Latin communicabilis, from communicare (see communication).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
communicable
(kə-myōō′nĭ-kə-bəl)- Transmittable between persons or species; contagious.
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communicable
[kə-myōō′nĭ-kə-bəl]
- Capable of being transmitted from a person or animal to another person or animal, either through direct or indirect transmission, including insect or other vectors. Chickenpox is a communicable disease.
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