| tertiary medical care | Specialised consultative care, usually on referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working in a centre that has personnel and facilities for special investigation and treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| medical care | The portion of care under a physician's direction. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| comprehensive medical care | A concept that includes not only the traditional care of the acutely or chronically ill patient, but also the prevention and early detection of disease and the rehabilitation of the disabled. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary medical care | Care of a patient by a member of the health care system who has initial contact with the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary medical care | Medical care by a physician who acts as a consultant at the request of the primary physician. (05 Mar 2000) |
| protein structure, tertiary | The stage in the structural development of a protein in which combinations of alpha helices and beta sheets pack together to form compactly folded globular units named domains. Small proteins consist of only one domain but larger proteins contain a number of domains which are usually connected by open lengths of polypeptide chain. This stage is a combination of the second and third folding levels of protein building. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tertiary | 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. 2. <chemistry> Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. 3. <geology> Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary. 4. <zoology> Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; said of quills. Tertiary age. <medicine> The third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal organs. Origin: L. Tertiarius containing a third part, fr. Tertius third: cf. F. Tertiaire. See Tierce. 1. A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third. 2. <geology> The Tertiary era, period, or formation. 3. <zoology> One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tertiary alcohol | An alcohol characterised by the trivalent atom group (05 Mar 2000) |
| tertiary amine monooxygenase | <enzyme> Requires NADPH and fad; can be separated from dimethylamine mono-oxygenase; oxidises a variety of tertiary alkylamines up to tributylamine Registry number: EC 1.14.99.- Synonym: trimethylamine mono-oxygenase (26 Jun 1999) |
| tertiary amputation | An amputation formerly performed after infection had been controlled. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tertiary amyl alcohol | amylene hydrate |
| tertiary butyl alcohol | Trimethylcarbinol, 2-methyl-2-propanol, (CH3)3COH, a denaturant for ethanol. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tertiary calcium phosphate | Ca3(PO4)2;used as an antacid. Synonym: bone ash, bone phosphate, tertiary calcium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, whitlockite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tertiary cortex | <anatomy> Mid cortical region of lymph node, area that is particularly depleted of T lymphocytes in thymectomised animals and is referred to as the thymus dependent area. (18 Nov 1997) |
| tertiary dentin | Morphologically irregular dentin formed in response to an irritant. Synonym: irregular dentin, irritation dentin, reparative dentin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tertiary egg membrane | See: egg membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |