Definition of Communicable

1. Adjective. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection.


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

communalities
communality
communalize
communalized
communalizes
communalizing
communally
communard
communards
communed
communer
communers
communes
communicability
communicable (current term)
communicable disease
communicable disease control
communicable scale
communicableness
communicably
communicans
communicant
communicants
communicated
communicatee
communicatees
communicates
communicateth

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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