During the operation he did not fail to utter comminations which , though broken , had a sense in them ; while stigmatizing me as the treacherous spawn of a perfidious country , he , in the same breath , anathematized Zoraide Reuter ; he termed her  femme sotte et vicieuse ,  who , in a fit of lewd caprice , had thrown herself away on an ...
The tertiary structure of a protein is a description of the complex and irregular folding of the peptide chain in three dimensions. It is essentially a picture of what the shape of the entire protein actually looks like. Examples are shown in the following ribbon figure of human growth hormone.
These meanings have no relationship at all to the meanings above; they have no relationship to counting anything. The term primary structure refers to the amino acid sequence in a protein. The terms secondary and tertiary structure refer to the three-dimensional (3D) conformation of a protein chain. Secondary structure refers to the interactions of the backbone chain (that is, the amide linkages). Tertiary structure refers to interactions of the side chains.