Transmissible \Trans*mis"si*ble\, a. [Cf. F. transmissible.] Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.
"If high-risk individuals avoid the survey, there's no point" in conducting a national survey, said Dr. Bruce W. Dixon, chief of the sexually transmissible disease program of the county health department.
Justice F. Warren Travers of New York state's trial-level Supreme Court, in a ruling made public Tuesday, rejected an attempt by doctors to force designation of the disease as sexually transmissible.