See Also: Vertical Transmission(medicine)
disease transmission, vertical(medicine)
Transmission(medicine)
transmission(dictionary)
TRANSMISSION, civ(law)
transmission(encyclopedia)
transmission(dictionary)
duplex transmission(medicine)
iatrogenic transmission(medicine)
disease transmission(medicine)

drachm (iou) and Vertical Transmission (medicine)


drachm (iou)



drachm noun. [dram] arch. LME.
[Old French dragme or late Latin dragma var. of Latin DRACHMA. Cf. DRAM noun1.]
= DRACHMA 2. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
b. = DIRHAM. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
A unit of weight orig. equal to the weight of a drachma; an apothecaries' weight of 1 / 8 ounce (60 grains); an avoirdupois weight of 1 / 16 ounce (approx. 27.344 grains). Also = fluid drachm s.v. FLUID adjective. LME.
fig. A small quantity. LME.
T. Hardy 'Now do you see the truth?' she whispered..without a drachm of feeling.

Vertical Transmission (medicine)


vertical transmission
<microbiology> Transmission of a pathogen such as HIV from mother to foetus or baby during Pregnancy or birth.

See: perinatal transmission.