epipolism

From Ancient Greek ἐπιπολή (epipolḗ, “surface”) (from τέλλω (téllō, “rise”)) +‎ -ism.

epipolism (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) fluorescence
   • 1857, Chemical Gazette:

     You then examined it for epipolism or fluorescence , and you pronounced the opinion that it possessed this property only in a minor degree

• epipolic
• epipolized

• “epipolism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.