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anterograde

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anterograde /an·tero·grade/ (an´ter-o-grad?) extending or moving anteriorly.
an·ter·o·grade (nt-r-grd)
adj.
Moving forward.

anterograde
extending or moving forward.

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After passing through the skin--especially broken skin--the viruses are transported retrogradely along dendrites of sensory neurons to the dorsal root ganglion, where they remain dormant until a stress situation triggers anterograde translocation along the dendrites back to the skin (Kennedy and Chaudhuri 2002; Terasaki et al.
Following the rape and murder of his wife, Leonard has lost the ability to make new memories, and apart from his life before that traumatic event--that his anterograde amnesia allows him to remember partly (selectively)--his world begins anew every 15 minutes.
They represent episodes of anterograde amnesia during which subjects are capable of participating in salient, emotionally charged events for which they will later have no recollection (Goodwin 1995).
 
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