anterograde
anterograde adjective: effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
Adjective
anterograde (not comparable)
- 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.
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- antegrade
anterograde meaning in Tamil
anterograde in Tamil
- முன்செல், முன்செல்லல், முன்நோக்கி இயக்கம் முன் நீட்டல்
Synonyms of anterograde
Antonyms
Origin of anterograde
From antero- + -grade (“direction”) from Latin gradus (“pace, step”).
Words formed from anterograde
Phrases with anterograde
Questions about anterograde
- What does anterograde mean?
- Anterograde means effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
- What is anterograde in Tamil?
- Anterograde in Tamil is முன்செல், முன்செல்லல், முன்நோக்கி இயக்கம் முன் நீட்டல். See Anterograde meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is anterograde?
- Anterograde is an adjective.
Words near anterograde in the dictionary
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