transmissible

[trans-mis-uh-buh l, tranz-]

adjective

Origin of transmissible

1635–45; < Latin trānsmiss(us) (see transmission) + -ible

Related formstrans·mis·si·bil·i·ty, nounun·trans·mis·si·ble, adjective

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Mr. Galton first took up the subject of the transmissibility of intellectual gifts in his 'Hereditary Genius' .
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15
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The transmissibility of contagious abortion of cows appears to have been demonstrated experimentally for the first time by Brauer.
Contagious Abortion of Cows
Ward J. MacNeal
But Weismann's argument rests not merely upon any difficulty or impossibility of the transmissibility of acquired characteristics.
The Whence and the Whither of Man
John Mason Tyler
The importance of use and disuse, and the transmissibility of their effects, would seem to supply a factor essential to evolution.
The Whence and the Whither of Man
John Mason Tyler
These results appear to conflict most seriously with the theory of the transmissibility of acquired modifications.
Parallel Paths
Thomas William Rolleston

Word Origin and History for transmissibility

adj.

1640s, from Latin transmiss-, stem of transmittere (see transmit) + -ible.

transmissibility in Medicine

[trăns-mĭs′ə-bəl, trănz-]

adj.