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Transmittable   /trænzmˈɪtəbəl/   Listen
Transmittable

adjective
1.
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection.  Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible.





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"Transmittable" Quotes from Famous Books



... react on intrinsic personality? This is the problem of "the inheritance of acquired characteristics." Into this problem I do not enter further than to note that in so far as newly developed personal traits produce transformations of body and brain transmittable from parent to offspring by the bare fact of parentage, in that degree does acquired pass over into intrinsic personality and thereby become intrinsic. In regard to the degree in which acquired has passed over into intrinsic ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick


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