AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airborne transmission mean? 

• AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION (noun)
  The noun AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION has 1 sense:

1. a transmission mechanism in the which the infectious agent is spread as an aerosol and usually enters a person through the respiratory tract

  Familiarity information: AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A transmission mechanism in the which the infectious agent is spread as an aerosol and usually enters a person through the respiratory tract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("airborne transmission" is a kind of...):

transmission mechanism (any mechanism whereby an infectious agent is spread from a reservoir to a human being)

 Context examples 

They discovered that airborne transmission was associated with a single genetic change in the engineered virus’s hemagglutinin that gave it the ability to bind to mammalian-type α2,6 SA of a particular class (long chain) without the loss of the other introduced changes that had made it a α2,3 SA binding type.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)