Anterograde vs. Retrograde
Anterogradeadjective
(medicine) Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
Anterogradeadjective
(medicine) Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.
Anterogradeadjective
of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma
Anterogradeadjective
directed forwards in time.
Anterogradeadjective
of or denoting a form of amnesia which involves inability to remember information encountered after its onset.
Retrogradeadjective
Directed backwards, retreating; reverting, especially to an inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion.
Retrogradeadjective
Counterproductive to a desired outcome.
Retrogradeadjective
In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
Retrogradeadjective
(geology) Describing a metamorphic change resulting from a decreasing pressure or temperature.
Retrogradeadjective
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
Retrogradeadjective
Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; - opposed to progressive.
Retrogradeadjective
Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
Retrogradeverb
To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
Retrogradeverb
Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
Retrogradeverb
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
Retrogradeverb
move in a direction contrary to the usual one;
Retrogradeverb
move back;
Retrogradeverb
go back over;
Retrogradeverb
get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
Retrogradeadjective
moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
Retrogradeadjective
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
Retrogradeadjective
going from better to worse
Retrogradeadjective
moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
Retrogradeadjective
directed or moving backwards
Retrogradeadjective
(of the apparent motion of a planet) in a reverse direction from normal (from east to west), resulting from the relative orbital progress of the earth and the planet.
Retrogradeadjective
(of the orbit or rotation of a planet or planetary satellite) in a reverse direction from that normal in the solar system
Retrogradeadjective
reverting to an earlier and inferior condition
Retrogradeadjective
(of amnesia) involving the period immediately preceding the causal event.
Retrogradeadjective
(of the order of something) reversed; inverse
Retrogradeadjective
(of a metamorphic change) resulting from a decrease in temperature or pressure.
Retrogradenoun
a degenerate person.
Retrogradeverb
go back in position or time
Retrogradeverb
revert to an earlier and inferior condition
Retrogradeverb
show retrograde motion
