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.
Tertiary Structure: The Overall 3-Dimensional Shape of a Protein. A protein needs to adopt a final and stable 3-dimensional shape in order to function properly. The Tertiary Structure of a protein is the arrangement of the secondary structures into this final 3-dimensional shape. The sequence of amino acids in a protein (the primary structure) will determine where alpha helices and beta sheets (the secondary structures) will occure.