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anterograde

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See also: antérograde

English

Etymology

From antero- + -grade (direction) from 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.
    Synonym: antegrade
    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.

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Italian

Adjective

anterograde

  1. feminine plural of anterogrado

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