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Old May 25, 2010, 08:17 AM
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To further explain: "communicable" means able to communicate or transmit. It is the transmit definition that makes the word able to be used with diseases.
"transmittable disease"' would be a synonym of "communicable disease".
Communicative is just as you described it jpablo. In every day English I don't think I've ever heard it used to describe anything other than a person.
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