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.
1. the entire gaseous envelope surrounding the earth and subject to the earth's gravitational field. 2. the air or climate in a particular place. adj., atmospherÂ´ic. 3. a unit of pressure, being that exerted by the earth's atmosphere at sea level; equal to 1.01325 Ã 10 5 pascals (approximately 760 mm Hg).