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VEHICLE-BORNE TRANSMISSION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vehicle-borne transmission mean?
• VEHICLE-BORNE TRANSMISSION (noun)
The noun VEHICLE-BORNE TRANSMISSION has 1 sense:
1. indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vehicle (or fomite) touches a person's body or is ingested
Familiarity information: VEHICLE-BORNE TRANSMISSION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VEHICLE-BORNE TRANSMISSION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vehicle (or fomite) touches a person's body or is ingested
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("vehicle-borne transmission" is a kind of...):
indirect transmission (a transmission mechanism in which the infectious agent is transferred to the person by a fomite of vector)
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