adjective

• (of an impulse) traveling in the normal direction in a nerve fiber.

  The opposite of antidromic

  ‘A 55-year-old woman with a history of recurrent orthodromic AV-nodal re-entry tachycardia was admitted for electrophysiologic evaluation.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Sensory nerve-conduction velocities in the median and ulnar nerves were assessed with the orthodromic method.’
  • ‘An orthodromic impulse runs along an axon in its normal direction, away from the soma.’
  • ‘Orthodromic tachycardia is the most common arrhythmia in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.’
  • ‘However, a simultaneous comparison of both antidromic and orthodromic methods on the 4th digit has not been documented.’