What's the difference between tertiary and thirdly?
Tertiary
Definition:
(a.) Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
(a.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
(n.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this study was to define risk factors for nosocomial candidemia in adult patients without leukemia at a tertiary care medical center.
(2) injection of the tertiary amine cholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine (17-70 micrograms kg-1) induced a prompt, sustained and dose-dependent improvement of cardiovascular and respiratory function, with marked increase in the volume of circulating blood and survival of all treated animals, at least for the 2 h of observation.
(3) The measurement procedure should define preanalytical requirements and be based upon traceability from tertiary and secondary reference materials with reference procedure values to primary reference materials.
(4) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(5) It is suggested that lung ventilation takes place in the avian embryo in three distinct stages: the major air-ways become aerated, then respiratory movements begin and lastly the tertiary bronchi are slowly aerated.
(6) The disappearance of this band on heating and at high pH was ascribed to the adoption by the telopeptide of a specific tertiary structure.
(7) To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach tRNA was represented as a simple undirected graph containing all relevant information represented in the usual cloverleaf secondary structure and nine base-base tertiary interactions.
(8) The use of Fab fragments in conjunction with Fab-specific secondary and tertiary antisera improved tissue penetration and made it possible to identify a number of the immunoreactive neurons.
(9) At the 200 rad level, the mouse with normal karyotype was compared with the T(1;13)70H translocation heterozygote and the Ts(1(13))7OH tertiary trisomic of normal appearance.
(10) Transmembrane proteins serve important biological functions, yet precise information on their secondary and tertiary structure is very limited.
(11) The participants were divided into seven groups in accordance with their main lines of work: professors, administrative personnel, doctors at the primary, secondary and tertiary care level, residents, and medical students.
(12) With the growing number of dialyzed patients, secondary (sHPT) and tertiary hyperparathyroidism (tHPT) are assuming increasing importance.
(13) Establishing direct lines of communication between the practicing physician and the tertiary center and emphasizing continuing education at all levels seem to be important aspects in the development and maintenance of such a referral system.
(14) A similar transient decrease in 80K mRNA levels was also demonstrated in tertiary cultures of mouse embryo fibroblasts.
(15) These results suggest that the secondary structure of interleukin-2(Ala125) does not require tertiary structure.
(16) The absence of chemical reactivities and cobra venom nuclease sensitivity in the terminal loops of helices 6 and 12 indicate a tertiary interaction unique to HeLa 18S rRNA.
(17) Ultraviolet photocrosslinks seen only in the 30 S particle are likely to be tertiary structure contacts.
(18) As the tertiary test, inhibitors with molecular weights under 1,000 were selected by passage through a Diaflo UM-2 membrane.
(19) The pediatrician is instrumental in identifying potential candidates for epilepsy surgery and referring them to a tertiary-care epilepsy center.
(20) Performance of renal transplants in children frequently necessitates transfer of patients from the care of a local pediatric nephrologist to a regional, tertiary care center that is specially equipped to carry out organ transplantation.
Thirdly
Definition:
(adv.) In the third place.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
(10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
(11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
(12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
(18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
(19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.