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.
Formally, surface tension is deï¬ned in much the same way as pressure was deï¬ned inequation (2.10) on page 24. Let an oriented open surface be divided into two parts by anoriented curve, such that the surface has a uniquely deï¬ned left and right hand side withrespect to the curve.