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anterograde en · ADJ

Etymology

From antero- + -grade (“direction”) from Latin gradus (“pace, step”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
    • Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.
  2. (not-comparable) Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.
    • Movement of mitochondria and other cell parts from a neuron's cell body toward the synapse is called anterograde transport.
    • Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.

Antonyms

retrograde

Deriveds

anterograde amnesia · anterogradely

Synonyms

antegrade

Translations (6)

fi anterogradinen (medicine: moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of) · pt anterógrado (medicine: moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of) · fr antérograde (medicine: taking place immediately after a traumatic event) · fr antérograde (medicine: moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of) · fi anterogradinen (medicine: taking place immediately after a traumatic event) · pt anterógrado (medicine: taking place immediately after a traumatic event)