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antrograde

antrograde is the alternative form of anterograde.

Meaning of anterograde

Adjective

anterograde (not comparable)

  1. 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. 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.
    Synonyms:
    antegrade

Questions about antrograde

What is antrograde the alternative form of?
Antrograde is the alternative form of anterograde.

Words near antrograde in the dictionary

  1. antroconchopexy
  2. antrodiaetid
  3. antrodiaetids
  4. antroduodenal
  5. antroduodenojejunal
  6. antrograde
  7. Antron
  8. antronasal
  9. antroposphere
  10. antropyloric
  11. antroquinonol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antrograde (page history and authors); anterograde (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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