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English
Etymology
From antero- + -grade (“direction”) from Latin gradus (“pace, step”).
Adjective
anterograde (not comparable)
- (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.
- (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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Translations
medicine: moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of
Italian
Adjective
anterograde
- feminine plural of anterogrado