anterograde

anterograde
a) 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.

b) Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.

Movement of mitochondria and other cell parts from a neurons cell body toward the synapse is called anterograde transport.


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  • Anterograde Amnesie — Klassifikation nach ICD 10 R41.1 Anterograde Amnesie …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • anterograde conduction — transmission of a cardiac impulse in the normal direction, from the sinus node to the ventricles; used particularly to describe forward conduction through the atrioventricular node. Diagrammatic view of the conducting system of the heart, showing …   Medical dictionary

  • anterograde amnesia — noun loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma • Syn: ↑posttraumatic amnesia • Hypernyms: ↑amnesia, ↑memory loss, ↑blackout * * * anterograde amnesia… …   Useful english dictionary

  • anterograde — adj. of or pertaining to amnesia; affecting time right after a trauma; (Medicine) moving forward …   English contemporary dictionary

  • anterograde — adjective directed forwards in time. Origin C19: from anterior, on the pattern of retrograde …   English new terms dictionary

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