communicable
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com·mu·ni·ca·ble
(kə-myo͞o′nĭ-kə-bəl)adj.
1. Transmittable between persons or species; contagious: communicable diseases.
2. Readily communicated: communicable ideas.
3. Talkative.
com·mu′ni·ca·bil′i·ty, com·mu′ni·ca·ble·ness n.
com·mu′ni·ca·bly adv.
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communicable
(kəˈmjuːnɪkəbəl)adj
1. capable of being communicated
2. (Pathology) (of a disease or its causative agent) capable of being passed on readily
comˌmunicaˈbility, comˈmunicableness n
comˈmunicably adv
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com•mu•ni•ca•ble
(kəˈmyu nɪ kə bəl)adj.
1. capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: a communicable disease.
2. talkative; communicative.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin]
com•mu`ni•ca•bil′i•ty, com•mu′ni•ca•ble•ness, n.
com•mu′ni•ca•bly, adv.
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com·mu·ni·ca·ble
(kə-myo͞o′nĭ-kə-bəl) Capable of being transmitted from person to person. Chickenpox is a communicable disease. See Note at infectious.
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Adj. 1. [画像:communicable - (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection]communicable - (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
infectious - easily spread; "fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
2. communicable - readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
communicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray
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communicable
adjective infectious, catching, contagious, transferable, transmittable communicable diseases such as Ebola
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communicable
adjective1. Capable of transmission by infection:
2. Disposed to be open, sociable, and talkative:
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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communicable
adj
disease → übertragbar
ideas, knowledge → kommunizierbar, vermittelbar
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com·mu·ni·ca·ble
a. contagioso-a; comunicable;
___ disease control → control de enfermedades ___.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
communicable
adj transmisible, contagiosoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.