transmissible vs contagious

transmissible and contagious both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
transmissible	No	Yes	No	No
contagious	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, transmissible and contagious are synonyms defined as:

transmissible and contagious: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

Other synonyms of transmissible include catching, communicable, contractable, transmittable.

transmissible (adjective)	contagious (adjective)
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection	(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
occurring among members of a family usually by heredity	easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent