anterograde

Adjective

• of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma

Adj

• Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
• Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.

Examples

• Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.
• 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.
• Movement of mitochondria and other cell parts from a neuron's cell body toward the synapse is called anterograde transport.

Synonyms

antegrade

Antonyms

retrograde