0 returning to older and worse conditions, methods, ideas, etc.:
1 moving in the opposite direction to that of most other stars, planets, etc.:
2 used to describe a backward movement or a movement that is opposite to the usual direction of flow:
3 in astrology (= the study of the movements and positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars in the belief that they affect the character and lives of people), moving from east to west:
We next proceeded to determine the pharmacological properties of this retrograde suppressive effect.
Temperatures of granulite-facies metamorphism: constraints from experimental phase equilibria and thermobarometry corrected for retrograde exchange.
It would have been tempting to let the metaphor decide, say by exiting into a cloister, or by retrograde back the way one came.
Flow in die descending aorta was abnormal, with retrograde flow in diastole at die level of the diaphragm.
Whole-cell recordings were obtained from ganglion cells in a retinal slice preparation and from acutely dissociated ganglion cells that were identified through retrograde dye injection.
The chemical compositions of minerals with the largest grain size have been used for thermobarometry to minimize the effects of retrograde diffusion.
Studies using retrograde transport of fluorescent dyes and simultaneous peptide immunohistochemistry in the rat.
Thalamic projections of nucleus reticularis thalami of cat: a study using retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase and fluorescent tracers.
