Usually means: Attributing present knowledge to past.
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  1. retrojection: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrojection: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retrojection: Wordnik
  4. retrojection: Wiktionary
  5. retrojection: Dictionary.com

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  2. retrojection: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retrojection)

▸ noun:  (medicine) The washing out of a cavity by the backward flow of an injected fluid.

Similar:
backflush, flowback, backwashing, refluxing, washout, barbotage, repercolation, transvasation, exfiltration, refluxer, more...

Opposite:
projection, anticipation, expectation

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Similar:
backflush, flowback, backwashing, refluxing, washout, barbotage, repercolation, transvasation, exfiltration, refluxer, more...

Opposite:
projection, anticipation, expectation



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