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  • Communication effectiveness index

    Intended message reactions divided by the total number of transmitted messages.  

  • Communication deviance (CD)

    Disturbed patterns of expressing thoughts and feelings to others hypothesized to be more common in parents of schizophrenics.  

  • Communication channel

    The mechanism that carries information from its source to its destination.  

  • Communication

    The process by which messages are transferred through a channel to a receiver. The sending of data, messages, or other forms of information from one entity to another. The act of sharing information between two people (or groups of people) so that the information is successfully understood.  

  • Communicate

    To talk with other people and to exchange ideas and feelings.  

  • Communicable period

    The time during which an infectious agent may be transmitted from one host to another host. In epidemiology and infectious diseases, the time during which an infectious agent is transmissible, directly or indirectly, from an infected person or animal to a susceptible person.  

  • Communicable diseases

    Diseases that can be transmitted from one person to another person. All communicable diseases are infectious but not all infectious diseases are communicable. Diseases also vary in their ability to be transmitted; some are more communicable than are others. The chief characteristic are their incubation period, period of communicability, and their signs and symptoms. Before…

  • Communicable

    A disease that can be transmitted from person to person. Capable of being transferred or transmitted to another individual.  

  • Commune

    A form of group marriage or economic living arrangement in which income, property, and functions are shared, but each nuclear family held intact.  

  • Communard

    A person who supported or took part in the Commune of Paris (1871) communal family.  

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