1. Spirit-writing, independent writing: Pneumatography is supposedly alleged to be done directly by a disembodied spirit, without the hand of a medium or any material instrument.
2. A description of supposed spiritual beings, or of beliefs about them; the descriptive part of pneumatology: Pneumatography is part of the study of the interactions between people and God.
3. A process of tracing the movements of the thorax in respiration: Frank learned that pneumatography was very important in order to record the activity in the chest area of a patient.