1.AdjectiveEffective 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.AdjectiveMoving 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."