Word Finder - transmission

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The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.

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The fact of being transmitted.

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Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.

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The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.

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An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.

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The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

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(medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.

You received my latest transmission of the cities that are beyond repair?

Thus he approximates to the wave theory of light, though he supposed that the transmission of light was instantaneous.

Do you like to drive with an automatic or manual transmission?

The automatic transmission selector lever is on the steering column.

The application of this apparatus to the transmission of music was described by Gray.'

The Maui Jim selections available with the Makaha style include Grey, High Transmission, and HCL Bronze.

Transmission remains possible while the virus is being excreted and it can be transmitted for as long as the virus remains in the throat or feces.

This transmission occurs only if the mother is in the acute, or active, stage of infection when the organism is circulating in the mother's blood.

In fetuses, the severity of infection is dependent on the time of transmission.

If they had not, lengthy epics would never have survived oral transmission for centuries.

However, there is a shortage of knowledge on caries prevention and especially on the mother-child transmission mutans streptococci.

Iatrogenic transmission of CJD accepted - high titres of the agent in experimentally infected guinea pig corneas.

In addition to sexual transmission there is an increase in HIV among ethnic groups related to intravenous drug usage.

Approximately 78 percent of HIV-infected women are minorities and most become infected through heterosexual transmission.

The only form of direct person-to-person transmission occurs from mother to fetus during pregnancy.

Transmission of toxoplasmosis from the mother to the fetus may be prevented or reduced if the mother takes the antibiotic spiramycin.

Everyone in the family should be treated at the same time, whether they show clinical signs of the disease or not, because transmission among family members is so common.

However, most researchers agree that the chemical transmission of signals in the brain and nervous system are in some way related to PMS.

Transmission easily occurs by children not washing their hands thoroughly and spreading the infection to others.

Proper hand washing can prevent the spread of the virus by oral-fecal transmission.

Researchers have investigated the possibility of treating schizophrenia during the prodromal stage or even before symptoms start (such as when the likelihood of hereditary transmission is high).

The risk of HIV transmission during vaginal sex between a female and a male who has the virus is low, estimated at one-tenth to one-fifth of a percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This concept is used to explain the intergenerational transmission of attitudes, problems, behaviors, and other issues.

It is important, however, that other modes of transmission be considered, such as poorly or infrequently washed hands.

This is a common vector for bacterial transmission into the eye.

Live disease-causing bacteria within the bloodstream and tissues may cause complications far from the wound site, including transmission of HIV infection.

It is not possible to prevent the transmission of an abnormal peroxisomal gene from parent to child or spontaneous mutations that may arise.

The exact pattern of genetic transmission was not known as of 2004, however; autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and sex-linked inheritance patterns have all been studied and rejected.

Transmission of HBV occurs through blood and body fluid exposure such as blood, semen, vaginal secretions, or saliva.

Japanese encephalitis vaccine is recommended for those traveling to Asia and staying in affected rural areas during transmission season.

Scalp infections with the herpes virus or group B streptococcus are possible, and concern has been raised regarding the potential for enhancing transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The risk of transmission can be lowered by avoiding exposure to anyone who already has tonsillitis or a sore throat.

Shigellosis in schools or daycare settings almost always disappears when holiday breaks occur, which severs the chain of transmission.

The only way to prevent viral and bacterial nonallergic rhinitis is to take the steps which prevent transmission of the common cold.

Antidepressants work by blocking pain transmission from the nervous system.

Thorough hand washing is the most effective way to prevent the fecal-oral transmission of certain viruses, especially rotaviruses.

Thus, as of 2004, researches also believe an unknown mode of transmission may possibly be involved.

Transmission of many perinatal infections occurs during childbirth, particularly in cases when invasive techniques such as episiotomy or artificial rupture of membranes are employed.

In other cases, transmission may occur during pregnancy, if the infectious agent can cross the placental barrier, and it may occur during breastfeeding, if the infectious agent can be found in breast milk.

The rate of transmission of genital herpes during pregnancy is one to two out of every 2,000 pregnancies; the rate of transmission during childbirth changes to one out of every 2,000 to 5,000 live births.

Perinatal transmission of group beta streptococcus causes neonatal infection in one to five out of every 1,000 live births, and rubella (German measles), 0.02 out of every 1,000 live births.

In some cases, early detection and treatment of infection can minimize the risk of perinatal transmission.

Most of the drugs designed to treat HIV are routinely used during pregnancy because of the mother's health needs and because transmission rate is directly related to the mother's viral load.

Cesarean delivery rather than vaginal delivery reduces the risk of transmission of HPV from mothers to infants.

Use of a barrier method of contraceptive (e.g. condom) can prevent transmission of some sexually transmitted infections during intercourse.

To prevent disease transmission during CPR, face masks and face shields are available to prevent direct contact during rescue breathing.

The risk of HIV transmission from a pregnant woman to her baby can be significantly reduced with the use of antiretroviral drugs taken during pregnancy, labor, and delivery and administered to the baby for the first six weeks of life.

In ordinary sound-waves the effect of the particle velocity in affecting the velocity of transmission must be very small.

The reason of this is, that the segments of the plate AOD, BOC always vibrate in the same direction, but oppo sitely to the segments AOB, DOC. Hence, when the pasteboard is in its place, there are two waves of same phase starting from the two former segments, and reaching the ear after equal distances of transmission through the air, are again in the same phase, and produce on the ear a conjunct impression.

Although, however, gravitation has formed the most perfect instance of an influence completely expressible, up to the most extreme refinement of accuracy, in terms of laws of direct action across space, yet, as is well known, the author of this ideally simple and perfect theory held the view that it is not possible to conceive of direct mechanical action independent of means of transmission.