Definition of Anterograde

1. Adjective. Of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma.

Attributes: Temporal Relation
Antonyms: Retrograde

Definition of Anterograde

1. Adjective. (medicine) Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock. ¹

2. Adjective. (medicine) Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Anterograde

1. Moving or extending forward. Synonym: antegrade. Origin: L. Gredi = to go (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anterograde

anterior wall of middle ear
anterior wall of stomach
anterior wall of tympanic cavity
anterior white commissure
anteriorities
anteriority
anteriorly
anteriorness
anteriour
anteriourly
antero-
anterodorsal thalamic nucleus
anteroexternal
anterofacial dysplasia
anterograde (current term)
anterograde amnesia
anterograde block
anterograde conduction
anterograde memory
anterograde transport
anterogradely
anteroinferior
anteroinferior myocardial infarction
anterointernal
anterolateral
anterolateral central arteries
anterolateral column of spinal cord
anterolateral cordotomy
anterolateral fontanel

Literary usage of Anterograde

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dissociation of a Personality: A Biographical Study in Abnormal Psychology by Morton Prince (1905)
"The former is called anterograde because it goes ahead of the emotional crisis, while the retrograde amnesia involves a period of time antedating the ..."

2. Alcohol and the Brain (1993)
"Korsakoff s syndrome alone, with anterograde amnesia as the symptom standing in sharp contrast to other cognitive deficits described below, is not a common ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"The anterograde amnesia was only partial. He remembered haying had some ... The anterograde amnesia was not absolute, yet was very pronounced for a period ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"The anterograde amnesia was only partial. He remembered haying had some ... The anterograde amnesia was not absolute, yet was very pronounced for a period ..."

5. Psychiatry by Stewart Paton (1905)
"The amnesic defect, as a rule, has the following- characteristics: It may be simple, retrograde, anterograde, transitory or permanent, ..."

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