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.
The layers of Earth's atmosphere. An atmosphere (New Latin atmosphaera, 17th century, from Greek á¼ÏÎ¼ÏÏ [ atmos ] vapor and ÏÏÎ±á¿ÏÎ± [ sphaira ] sphere) is a layer of gases surrounding a planet or other material body of sufficient mass that is held in place by the gravity of the body.n atmosphere is more likely to be retained if the gravity is high and the atmosphere's temperature is low. The atmosphere of Earth is mostly composed of nitrogen. It also contains oxygen used by most organisms for respiration and carbon dioxide used by plants, algae and cyanobacteria for photosynthesis.