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.
This latter case also applies to the case of a bubble surrounded by a liquid, such as the case of the alveoli of the lungs. Surface tension is responsible for the shape of liquid droplets. Although easily deformed, droplets of water tend to be pulled into a spherical shape by the cohesive forces of the surface layer. The spherical shape minimizes then necessary wall tension of the surface layer according to LaPlace's law.