adverb
- In a manner involving conduction or movement in the opposite direction to the normal or expected direction, especially in physiology regarding nerve impulses.
Usage: technical; medical/physiological context
Examples
- The nerve impulse traveled antidromically along the axon, moving backward from the terminal to the cell body.
- In the experiment, stimulation was applied antidromically to test the neuron's response properties.
- The signal propagated antidromically through the neural pathway, contrary to its typical direction of transmission.