anterograde

adj

1. (not-comparable)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. (not-comparable)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.”