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Kir·lian photography (kir′lē ən)

a method of capturing on a photographic plate an image of what is thought by some to be an aura of energy that emanates from animals and plants and that undergoes changes in accordance with physiological or emotional changes

Etymology: after S. Kirlian, its Soviet developer (1939)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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