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tertiary
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The geological time period lying between the Cretaceous and the Quaternary (qv), extending from about 65 to 1.6 million years ago. It occupies the bulk of the Cainozoic era. From oldest to youngest, the subdivisions are Palaeocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene. Tertiary climates in Australia were mainly warm and humid, with aridity first appearing towards the end of the Miocene and becoming widespread in the Pliocene.
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tertiary care
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Provision by a large medical center, usually serving a region or state and having sophisticated technological and support facilities, of highly specialized medical and surgical care for unusual and complex medical problems.
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tertiary structure
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structures stabilized by interactions between the amino acid side chains on a single polypeptide
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tertiary
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A mixture of a primary and an adjacent secondary color.
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tertiary a.
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an alcohol in which the carbon atom attached to the hydroxyl group carries three alkyl groups. See illustration.
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