ADJECTIVE
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inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
hereditary monarchy
transmissible tradition
ancestral home
patrimonial estate
ancestral lore -
occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
genetically transmitted features
an inherited disease
familial traits - (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
How To Use transmissible In A Sentence
- Foot and mouth disease is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible to humans, but it crosses the species barrier with difficulty and with little effect.
- I asked them if they supposed a nation of people ever existed, who, with a free vote in every man's hand, would elect that a single family and its descendants should reign over it forever, whether gifted or boobies, to the exclusion of all other families -- including the voter's; and would also elect that a certain hundred families should be raised to dizzy summits of rank, and clothed on with offensive transmissible glories and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's families -- _including his own_. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.
- There have been a handful of cases of transmissible neuropathies reported in neurosurgeons. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
- He coined the term transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. The Mad Cow Epidemic is here to stay.
- This extremely rare and fatal brain disorder belongs to a family of human and animal diseases known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
- The strain was said to be lethal for poultry and potentially transmissible to humans.
- Other, less prestigious ennobling offices required two generations to serve in office before conferring transmissible nobility.
- In the premier open access journal PLoS Biology, a study of children in Kenya reveals that those individuals harboring the transmissible gametocyte stage of malaria parasites are more attractive to the mosquito vectors that spread this disease. Internet legal stuff
- But to have such an epidemic you need more than an easily transmissible bug.
- More effective vaccines are valuable tools for the prevention of transmissible infectious diseases.