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Example sentences for "communicable"

Lexicographically close words:
communes; communi; communia; communibus; communicability; communicant; communicants; communicate; communicated; communicates
  1. If a person has a communicable disease, as syphilis, leprosy, and some bad forms of skin disease, the disease will certainly be communicated to the wife or husband, and so a double amount of suffering will be entailed.

  2. Persons suffering with serious disease of a character communicable to others by contagion or by hereditary transmission.

  3. Justices in Quarter Sessions is understood to be now (1901) under consideration.

  4. But perhaps the most irregular of all these associations was that established in the Isle of Ely, where the parishioners of Whittlesea kept a pack of blood-hounds for the purpose of hunting down sheep-stealers.

  5. In the case of women convicts remission to the extent of one-third or thereabouts can be earned.

  6. See "The Police of the Metropolis," by Sir C.

  7. By its running through whole families it appeared also to be communicable by infection.

  8. Again, it may be a secondary or residual affection with many, but a communicable disease to others.

  9. Believes the disease is sometimes communicable by contagion.

  10. After its invasion, it is communicable to others by contact of the morbid secretion; and in individuals who have been once affected the disease is very apt to recur when they are crowded together in unhealthy situations.

  11. It was communicable by very slight contact by kissing the lips of an infected person, smoking the same pipe, drinking out of the same cup, or using the same spoon.

  12. It was the aim of his school to keep this faculty alive as long as possible, and with its aid to establish a communicable world-conception.

  13. Typhoid fever is a communicable disease, but, if certain precautions are taken, its contraction and spread can almost certainly be prevented.

  14. The poison thus matured is capable of being preserved with but little change for the periods indicated above, and is communicable through the atmosphere for short distances.

  15. But to any one familiar {721} with the history of epidemic diseases it will at once be apparent that every one of these conditions favors the spread of all communicable infectious diseases.

  16. Yellow fever is a specific, infectious, and communicable disease of one febrile paroxysm.

  17. It locally destroys the communicable property of the discharges, shown by the immunity of attendants from any sore throat when it is used, and from its checking the spread of the disease in the locality.

  18. But there are manifest difficulties in the way, chiefly in regard to the delicate and searching examination which would be required in the case of women before a doctor could certify positively to the absence of communicable disease.

  19. Is there now or has there been on board during the voyage any person suffering from demonstrable syphilis in an active condition, or other communicable disease?

  20. It should be the duty of the Registrar to communicate the contents of the statements to the other party in the event of any admission of the presence of communicable disease.

  21. If the system were adopted the certificate should, in the opinion of the present Committee, include freedom from mental disease as well as freedom from communicable disease.

  22. The results of medical inspection, therefore, furnish an index to the presence of communicable diseases in the community.

  23. Where, on the other hand, boards of health regard every communicable disease as a menace to health rights, you will find that health officials take certain steps in a certain order to remove the soil in which preventable diseases grow.

  24. If the medical profession does not fit itself to serve general interests, then cities, counties, and states will take to themselves the cure as well as the prevention of communicable and other preventable sickness.

  25. For years leading educators, business men, hospital directors, public officials, have known that communicable diseases could be stamped out.

  26. A staff of inspectors for communicable diseases of pupils and teachers, to be subject to the board of education or the board of health.

  27. Medical inspection is the search for communicable disease.

  28. Object, and may assume his feeling to be universally communicable and that without the mediation of concepts.

  29. There are those who believe that scurvy is of bacterial origin, some going so far as to regard it as a communicable disease.

  30. It has not been proved to be communicable and the majority of investigators of this subject believe that it is not caused by a germ.

  31. Being placed outside of and above individual and local contingencies, it sees things only in their permanent and essential aspects, which it crystallizes into communicable ideas.

  32. The cause of the defect is obscure, but it has been demonstrated that the same is communicable if a starter is made by grating some of this mottled cheese into milk.

  33. Ropiness of this character is not usually communicable from one lot of milk to another.

  34. The communicable form of ropy milk only appears after the milk has been drawn from the udder for a day or so, and is caused by the development of various species of bacteria which find their way into the milk after it is drawn.

  35. The parasitic group includes those which are the cause of various communicable diseases.

  36. Blue milk has been known for many years, its communicable nature being established as long ago as 1838.

  37. Feeling, in short, is modified in becoming communicable; and the feeling which has become communicable in music is not capable of re-translation into the feeling which has become communicable in painting.

  38. Jesus and Gotama laboured under the same difficulty: they knew more than was translatable into language, or communicable to their followers.

  39. Those who hold all communicable diseases to be of parasitic origin, include, of course, rabies among the number of those produced and propagated by a living contagium.

  40. The various modes in which communicable diseases are diffused among human populations were illustrated by Pasteur's treatment of the silkworms.

  41. And so it has been with the Germ Theory of communicable diseases.

  42. How great, then, must be the importance of the medium of cultivation, with regard to the virulence of the microbes of communicable diseases!

  43. This indifference lasted for thirteen years; it would have lasted longer still, if the parasitic origin of communicable diseases had not been brought before the mind by each new publication of Pasteur's.

  44. Those suffering from acute or communicable diseases were rigidly excluded.

  45. These words completely characterize the aristocracy of color; for this aristocracy is plainly in the enjoyment of privileges not communicable to other citizens by anything they can themselves do to obtain them.

  46. Any patients afflicted with a venereal or other communicable disease shall be properly isolated in a separate room and all necessary precautions taken to prevent the spread of such disease to other persons.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "communicable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    catching; communicable; communicative; contagious; deadly; destructive; endemic; epidemic; expansive; infectious; interchangeable; malign; malignant; miasmic; movable; noxious; pandemic; pestiferous; poisonous; portable; presentable; removable; sporadic; taking; toxic; transferable; transportable; venomous; virulent