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 has the dimension of force per unit length, or of energy per unit area. The two are equivalentâbut when referring to energy per unit of area, people use the term surface energy âwhich is a more general term in the sense that it applies also to solids and not just liquids.urface tension has the dimension of force per unit length, or of energy per unit area. The two are equivalentâbut when referring to energy per unit of area, people use the term surface energy âwhich is a more general term in the sense that it applies also to solids and not just liquids.