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transmissible [trans-mis-uh-buh l, tranz-] ExamplesWord Origin adjective
- capable of being transmitted.
Origin of transmissible 1635–45; Latin trānsmiss(us) (see transmission) + -ible Related formstrans·mis·si·bil·i·ty, nounun·trans·mis·si·ble, adjective Examples from the Web for transmissibility Historical Examples of transmissibility
Mr. Galton first took up the subject of the transmissibility of intellectual gifts in his ‘Hereditary Genius’ .
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The transmissibility of contagious abortion of cows appears to have been demonstrated experimentally for the first time by Brauer.
Ward J. MacNeal
But Weismann’s argument rests not merely upon any difficulty or impossibility of the transmissibility of acquired characteristics.
The Whence and the Whither of Man
John Mason Tyler
The importance of use and disuse, and the transmissibility of their effects, would seem to supply a factor essential to evolution.
The Whence and the Whither of Man
John Mason Tyler
These results appear to conflict most seriously with the theory of the transmissibility of acquired modifications.
Thomas William Rolleston
Word Origin and History for transmissibility transmissible adj.
1640s, from Latin transmiss-, stem of transmittere (see transmit) + -ible.
transmissibility in Medicine transmissible [trăns-mĭs′ə-bəl, trănz-] adj.
- Capable of being conveyed from one person to another.