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COMMUNICABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does communicable mean?
• COMMUNICABLE (adjective)
The adjective COMMUNICABLE has 2 senses:
1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
2. readily communicated
Familiarity information: COMMUNICABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Synonyms:
catching; communicable; contagious; contractable; transmissible; transmittable
Similar:
infectious (easily spread)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Readily communicated
Context example:
communicable ideas
Similar:
communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)
Context examples
He will generally not render primary health care, except for specific disease entities such as selected communicable diseases.
(Community Physician, NCI Thesaurus)
Kidney disease is a key contributor to the global non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden both as a cause and consequence of other major NCDs — hypertension, stroke and cardio-vascular disease.
(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)
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