retro-, retr-

A thought or a revelation about something that happened in the past: What caused so much misunderstanding was that Alfred's retrospects were too confusing to determine what he really wanted to achieve in his next attempt to complete the project.
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Relating to something that happened in the past: The police issued a retrospective report about three trucks running into each other and causing the highway to be shut down for ten hours one day last week. © ALL rights are reserved.

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An unconscious distortion of memories of past experiences so as to conform to some current emotional needs: Under stress, Susan's mother experienced retrospective falsification and appeared not to remember events as they actually had happened.

The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.

1. The act of transcribing a text from its current version into the first language in which it was written: The teacher, Mr. Latinus, assigned his students the task of making retroversions of the paragraphs in the ancient history book into the original Latin text.
2. The reversal or tipping backwards of something; for example, an organ of the body: The trainer at the fitness studio suggested that Ann do some specific exercises in order to achieve a retroversion of the pain she was having in her back because she was working too much on her computer and not moving around enough.

Get thee behind me, Satan.