Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - kirlian photography

 noun  Etymology: Semiticen D. Kirlian died 1978 and Valentina Kh. Kirlian died 1971 Soviet inventors  Date: 1972 a process in which an image is obtained by application of a high-frequency electric field to an object so that it radiates a characteristic pattern of luminescence that is recorded on photographic film  • Kirlian photograph noun