communicable
/kəˈmjuːnɪkəbl/ (bre, ipa) · /kəˈmjuːnɪkəbl/ (ame, ipa) · /kə-ˈmyü-ni-kə-bəl/ (ame, mw)
communicable — 形容詞
- communicablepositive
- more communicablecomparative
- most communicablesuperlative
1. describing an illness that one living thing can pass to another through contact,
傳染性的
可在人或動物間傳播的疾病
describing an illness that one living thing can pass to another through contact, the air, water, or insects.
Measles is a highly communicable disease that spreads quickly through unvaccinated children.
麻疹是一種傳染性極強的疾病，會在未接種疫苗的兒童之間迅速擴散。
collocation: communicable disease (most frequent noun pairing)
Dr. Cyrus warned the village that the new fever was communicable through contaminated drinking water.
Cyrus 醫師警告村民，這種新型熱病可透過受汙染的飲用水傳染。
predicative: be communicable through [route of transmission]
Public health officials must isolate patients carrying a communicable infection until tests come back clear.
公共衛生官員必須隔離帶有傳染性感染的病患，直到檢驗結果確認陰性為止。
Rabies is communicable from wild animals to humans through a single bite or scratch.
狂犬病可透過野生動物的一次咬傷或抓傷傳染給人類。
The hospital posted signs reminding visitors that flu is communicable even before symptoms appear.
醫院張貼告示，提醒訪客流感在症狀出現之前就具有傳染性。
- transmissible
near-exact medical synonym; slightly more technical, often used in epidemiology papers
- contagious
everyday word; strictly means spread by direct or close contact, narrower than 'communicable'
- infectious
spread by germs entering the body; overlaps with 'communicable' but does not cover non-germ routes such as insect bites
- non-communicable
the standard public-health pair, used in phrases like 'non-communicable diseases' (heart disease, diabetes)
文法句型
communicable disease
communicable to [person/animal]
用法筆記
Almost always appears with disease nouns (disease, illness, infection). Distinguish from the looser synonym 'contagious', which laypeople use; 'communicable' is the term used in public-health and clinical writing and covers transmission by any route, not only direct contact.