Sentence:  As he applied the applicator extending from the machine - which consisted of seven differently colored <WSD>neon</WSD> tubes superimposed on a rectangular base - to the supposedly diseased portions of Mrs. Shaefer 's body , Lee kept up a steady stream of pseudo scientific mumbo-jumbo . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a lamp consisting of a small gas-discharge tube containing neon at low pressure; luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube