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Adjective: transmissible  tranz'mi-su-bul
  1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
    - catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmittable
     
  2. Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
    "transmissible traits"
    - familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted
     
  3. Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
    "transmissible tradition"
    - ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial

See also: heritable, infectious, inheritable, transmit