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.
environment (envÄ«Â´rÉnment, en-vÄ«Â´urnment) , n the aggregate of all the external conditions and influences affecting the life and development of an organism. environment, extracellular, n the external, or interstitial, environment provided and maintained for the tissue cells.