Difference between Contagious and Transmissible

CONTAGIOUS vs TRANSMISSIBLE: ADJECTIVE

Of or relating to communicable diseases
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Of or relating to contagion.
Transmissible by direct or indirect contact; communicable.
Capable of transmitting a disease.
Spreading or tending to spread from one to another; infectious.
Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching.
Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.
Of a fashion, laughter, etc., easily passed on to others.
Of a person, having a disease that can be transmitted to another person by touch.
Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous.

Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity
Capable of being transmitted.
Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.
Able to be transmitted

Communicable by contagion; that may be imparted by contact or by emanations; catching: as, a contagious disease.
Containing or generating contagion; poisonous; pestilential: as, contagious air; contagious clothing.
Propagated by influence or incitement; exciting like feeling or action; spreading or liable to spread from one to another: as, contagious example; a contagious speculation.
Arising from or due to contagion, in either sense; brought about by propagation or incitement: as, a contagious epidemic.

Noninfectious, Noncontagious, Agalactia, Ferry, Epidemiological, Gastric, Transmitted, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Catching, Transmittable, Transmissible, Communicable, Infectious

Encephalopathy, Spongiform, Contractable, Inherited, Familial, Catching, Hereditary, Genetic, Heritable, Inheritable, Infectious, Transmitted, Contagious, Communicable, Transmittable

Noninfectious, Noncontagious, Agalactia, Ferry, Epidemiological, Gastric, Transmitted, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Catching, Transmittable, Transmissible, Communicable, Infectious

Transmission, Venereal, Contractable, Inherited, Familial, Catching, Hereditary, Genetic, Heritable, Inheritable, Infectious, Transmitted, Contagious, Communicable, Transmittable

Herpes is most contagious when sores are present.
Goodness is enticing, infectious and contagious like leaven.
But strep throat and scarlet fever are contagious.
TANGERE, the Scotch fiddle, or other contagious disease.
Imagine a contagious architecture, anyone might catch it.
Mexico, neither applicant suffers from any contagious disease.
Some types of colitis are contagious and some are not contagious.
Contagious A contagious disease is easily spread from one person to another by contact with the infectious agent that causes the disease.
Where death is due to a violent contagious disease or suspected contagious diseasewhich may be a public health hazard.
Quarantine: a separation for people who have a contagious disease, have symptoms consistent with a contagious disease, or were exposed to a contagious disease.