Anterograde vs. Retrograde — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Anterograde and Retrograde
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Definitions
Anterograde
Directed forwards in time.
Retrograde
Directed or moving backwards
A retrograde flow
Anterograde
(medicine) 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.
Retrograde
Reverting to an earlier and inferior condition
To go back on the progress that has been made would be a retrograde step
Anterograde
(medicine) 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
(of the order of something) reversed; inverse
The retrograde form of these inscriptions
Anterograde
Of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma
Retrograde
(of a metamorphic change) resulting from a decrease in temperature or pressure.
Retrograde
A degenerate person.
Retrograde
Go back in position or time
Our history must retrograde for the space of a few pages
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Retrograde
Show retrograde motion
All the planets will at some time appear to retrograde
Retrograde
Moving or tending backward
A retrograde flow.
Retrograde
Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reversed
The retrograde form of the melody.
Retrograde
Reverting to an earlier or inferior condition
A retrograde way of thinking.
Retrograde
Of or relating to the orbital revolution or axial rotation of a planetary or other celestial body that moves clockwise from east to west, in the direction opposite to most celestial bodies.
Retrograde
Of or relating to the brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement of a planetary body in its orbit as viewed against the fixed stars, caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed.
Retrograde
Of or relating to orbital motion in the direction opposite that of the predominant motion in an orbital system.
Retrograde
(Astronomy) To have retrograde motion.
Retrograde
To decline to an inferior state; degenerate.
Retrograde
(Archaic) To move or seem to move backward.
Retrograde
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
Retrograde
Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
Retrograde
(zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
Retrograde
Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
Retrograde
(music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
Retrograde
Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
Retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
Retrograde
(archaic)
Retrograde
Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
Retrograde
Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.
Retrograde
(astronomy)
Retrograde
Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
Retrograde
Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
Retrograde
(geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
Retrograde
(medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
Retrograde
Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.
Retrograde
In a reverse direction; backwards.
Retrograde
A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
Retrograde
(astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
Retrograde
One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
Retrograde
(archaic) One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
Retrograde
(music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
Retrograde
(transitive)
Retrograde
(geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
Retrograde
(geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
Retrograde
(obsolete) To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
Retrograde
(intransitive)
Retrograde
To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
Retrograde
Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
Retrograde
(geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
Retrograde
(military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
Retrograde
(obsolete)
Retrograde
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde.
Retrograde
Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; - opposed to progressive.
It is most retrograde to our desire.
Retrograde
Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
Retrograde
To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
Retrograde
Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
Retrograde
Move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
Retrograde
Move in a direction contrary to the usual one;
Retrograding planets
Retrograde
Move back;
The glacier retrogrades
Retrograde
Go back over;
Retrograde arguments
Retrograde
Get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
Retrograde
Moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
Retrograde
Of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
Retrograde
Going from better to worse
Retrograde
Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction