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. The cohesive forces between liquid molecules are responsible for the phenomenon known as surface tension. The molecules at the surface do not have other like molecules on all sides of them and consequently they cohere more strongly to those directly associated with them on the surface.urface Tension of Water. The surface tension of water is 72 dynes/cm at 25Â°C. It would take a force of 72 dynes to break a surface film of water 1 cm long. The surface tension of water decreases significantly with temperature as shown in the graph.