Dr. Cruz referred the patient either to the lab doing the testing or to another doctor. Presumable, the other doctor then referred the patient for lab tests, but as this is fiction, it is equally possible the other doctor was a scientific researcher who worked in/owned a research lab. Since Dr. Cruz referred the patient, he was the referring doctor.
â¢ SURFACE TENSION (noun). The noun SURFACE TENSION has 1 sense: 1. a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces. Familiarity information: SURFACE TENSION used as a noun is very rare.
At liquid-air interfaces, surface tension results from the greater attraction of liquid molecules to each other (due to cohesion) than to the molecules in the air (due to adhesion).urface tension is responsible, for example, when an object or insect (e.g. water striders) that is denser than water is able to float or run along the water surface.