transmeable
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Adjective[edit]
transmeable (not comparable)
- (uncommon) Able to be traversed.
- 1665, Galeno-pale: or, a Chymical Tríal of the Galenists, ... to which is added an appendix, de Litho-Colo: or, an history of three large stones excluded the colon by chemical remedies, page 61:
- And indeed it is most happy for us that what Hippocrates saith is most true; […] That is, our whole Body is porous and transmeable, especially our Skin: for did we not freely breathe out those hurtful Atomes, […]
- 1943, Proceedings of the section of sciences:
- [Something] that allows a substance to pass through both membranes, through plasma-lemma and through tonoplast will be called transmeable here.