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American Heritage Dictionary:

com·mu·ni·ca·ble

(kə-myū'nĭ-kə-bəl) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Transmittable between persons or species; contagious: communicable diseases.
  2. Readily communicated: communicable ideas.
  3. Talkative.
communicability com·mu'ni·ca·bil'i·ty or com·mu'ni·ca·ble·ness n.
communicably com·mu'ni·ca·bly adv.

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adj

Definition: able to be contracted
Antonyms: incontractable, noncommunicable, noncontagious

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IN BRIEF: Something that can be passed on to another.

pronunciation Is love a communicable condition?

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Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:

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Transmissibility; ability to spread from infected to susceptible hosts.

  • c. period — the time during which the patient is infectious to others.
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For a list of words related to communicable, see:
  • Diagnostic Terminology - communicable: (adj) designating disease that can be transmitted from one person to another by physical contact, a carrier, or droplets exhaled into air


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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - smitsom, som kan meddeles videre, meddelsom

Nederlands (Dutch)
overdraagbaar, besmettelijk

Français (French)
adj. - communicable, (Méd) contagieux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - kommunizierbar, übertragbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ανακοινώσιμος, μεταδόσιμος, (για ασθένειες) μεταδοτικός, κολλητικός

Italiano (Italian)
trasmissibile, infettivo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - comunicável

Русский (Russian)
сообщаемый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - comunicable, transmisible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - som lätt kan meddelas, smittsam

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
可传达的, 爱说话的, 会传染的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 可傳達的, 愛說話的, 會傳染的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 전염성의, 개방적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 伝達できる, 伝染性の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ينتقل بالعدوى, قابل للتعبير عنه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עובר, מידבק‬


 
 

 

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