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Anterograde (adjective)
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.”
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Anterograde (adjective)
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.”
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Retrograde (adjective)
Directed backwards, retreating; reverting, especially to an inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion.
“retrograde ideas, morals, etc.”
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Retrograde (adjective)
Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
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Retrograde (adjective)
In the opposite direction to the orbited body’s spin.
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Retrograde (adjective)
Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
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Anterograde (adjective)
directed forwards in time.
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Anterograde (adjective)
of or denoting a form of amnesia which involves inability to remember information encountered after its onset.
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Retrograde (adjective)
directed or moving backwards
“a retrograde flow”
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Retrograde (adjective)
(of the apparent motion of a planet) in a reverse direction from normal (from east to west), resulting from the relative orbital progress of the earth and the planet.
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Retrograde (adjective)
(of the orbit or rotation of a planet or planetary satellite) in a reverse direction from that normal in the solar system
“the outer satellites move in retrograde orbits”
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Retrograde (adjective)
reverting to an earlier and inferior condition
“to go back on the progress that has been made would be a retrograde step”
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Retrograde (adjective)
(of amnesia) involving the period immediately preceding the causal event.
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Retrograde (adjective)
(of the order of something) reversed; inverse
“the retrograde form of these inscriptions”
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Retrograde (adjective)
(of a metamorphic change) resulting from a decrease in temperature or pressure.
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Retrograde (noun)
a degenerate person.
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Retrograde (verb)
go back in position or time
“our history must retrograde for the space of a few pages”
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Retrograde (verb)
revert to an earlier and inferior condition
“people cannot habitually trample on law and justice without retrograding toward barbarism”
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Retrograde (verb)
show retrograde motion
“all the planets will at some time appear to retrograde”