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.
Atmosphere is the gaseous envelope of air that surrounds the earth. The air extends as far as 620 miles above the surface of the earth. Scientists divide the earth's air into four layers: the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere and the thermosphere. Nitrogen makes up 78 percent of the world's atmosphere and oxygen makes up 21 percent. The last one percent consists mainly of argon and small amounts of other gases.