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Title: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: S'Raek on July 20, 2004, 04:43:41 am

I am trying to think of a word but I'm not having any luck.  How would you discribe how someone catches a disease from someone else.  I'm trying to say something like "We don't even know how it is spread" or "it is communicable" or something like that. 

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: Grand Master of Shadows NCC37385 on July 20, 2004, 04:55:01 am

Infectious, Contagious?

Are you trying to describe "how" it is spread, the person spreading the disease, or the disease itself?

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: Iceman on July 20, 2004, 10:00:30 am

Disseminated maybe?

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: The_Joker on July 20, 2004, 11:17:09 am

transferred from host to host?

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: S'Raek on July 20, 2004, 01:39:35 pm

Right, how it is passed from person to person.  How you catch it from someone else.  It doesn't really matter it's just I have something stuck in my head and can't think of the word I was looking for.   :-\

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: jualdeaux on July 20, 2004, 01:44:24 pm

Tony. Just out of curiosity, have you used dictionary.com's thesaurus function?

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: jualdeaux on July 20, 2004, 01:46:13 pm

And to answer your question, are you thinking about communicable? As in, "how communicable is this disease?"

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: S'Raek on July 20, 2004, 01:52:23 pm

I guess that's it.  Cay you say "We don't know how this disease is communicable." ??

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: interloper on July 20, 2004, 01:59:22 pm

how bout " We don't know how this disease is transmitted from host to
the infected subj....."

Title: Re: Help with a word or phrase
Post by: Abfalter on July 20, 2004, 02:07:29 pm

Communicable is the best word to describe IF it is transmitted.  "We do not know if the disease is communicable."

"Transmission vector" would be my suggestion for HOW it is transmitted.  "We know the disease is communicable, but we do not know it's transmisson vector."