anterograde

See also: antérograde

English

Etymology

From antero- + Latin gradus (“pace, step”)

Adjective

anterograde (not comparable)

1. (medicine) 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. (medicine) 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

Derived terms

• anterograde amnesia
• anterogradely

 

Translations

medicine: taking place immediately after a traumatic event

• Finnish: anterogradinen
• French: antérograde (fr) m or f
• Portuguese: anterógrado

medicine: moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of

• Finnish: anterogradinen
• French: antérograde (fr) m or f
• Portuguese: anterógrado

Italian

Adjective

anterograde

1. feminine plural of anterogrado