Recovering After Open Heart Surgery: Speaking to the Heart of the. Family. The total family constellation-- the patient, spouse, children, and significant. others-- can be significantly affected by cardiac surgery.
The noun ATMOSPHERE has 6 senses: 1. a particular environment or surrounding influence. 2. a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade. 3. the mass of air surrounding the Earth.
For instance the 'atmosphere' of Earth is the air we breath. The word can however also be used to describe a feeling or mood. For instance one could say that the atmosphere was electric when Martin Luther King gave his famous address on the steps of the Lincoln memorial.