Communicable vs Transmissible - What's the Difference?
Communicable
Transmissible
Definition as Adjective
- readily communicated
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Definition as Adjective
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Examples
- "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
- "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"