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Definition of Communicable
1. Adjective. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection.
Similar to: Infectious
Derivative terms: Catching, Contagion, Contagion, Transmit
2. Adjective. Readily communicated. "Communicable ideas"
Definition of Communicable
1. a. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
Definition of Communicable
1. Adjective. (context: of a disease) Able to be transmitted between people or species; contagious or catching ¹
2. Adjective. talkative or expansive ¹
3. Adjective. readily communicated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Communicable
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Communicable
1. Capable of being communicated or transmitted; said especially of disease. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Communicable
Literary usage of Communicable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"The Communicable Diseases of Childhood.—Parents naturally come to regard the ...
This problem of the communicable diseases and the schools is far from ..."
2. Health and Disease: Their Determining Factors by Roger Irving Lee (1917)
"By far the most important of these dangers are the communicable diseases.
The danger from communicable diseases is ever present; it may lurk in the air we ..."
3. Public Water-supplies: Requirements, Resources, and the Construction of Works by Frederick Eugene Turneaure, Harry Luman Russell, Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"The keynote of sanitary science, so far as applied to the investigation of water
problems, is to be noted in the relation that exists between communicable ..."
4. Municipal Sanitation in the United States by Charles Value Chapin (1900)
"Although Pennsylvania has as explicit statute law as any state for the prevention
of communicable diseases, nevertheless, power is given to ..."
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