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.
Surface tension and viscosity are two interesting properties of fluids which are related to the cohesion of the molecules in the fluid. Viscosity is the resistance of a substance to flow (1) and surface tension is a property of liquids such that their surfaces behave like a thin, elastic film (1). Surface tension is created by the inward pulling force exerted on the surface of a fluid (2).