Fingerprint Vocab Word Scramble
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Portrait parlé | A verbal description of a perpetrator's physical characteristics and dress provided by a witness. |
Anthropometry | A system of identification of individuals by measurement of parts of the body, developed by Alphonse Bertillon. |
Ridge characteristics | Ridge endings, bifurcations, enclosures, and other ridge details, which must match in two fingerprints in order for their common origin to be established. Minute |
Latent fingerprint | Fingerprint made by the deposit of oils and/or perspiration; invisible to the naked eye. |
Loop | Class of fingerprints characterized by ridge lines that enter from one side of the pattern and curve around to exit from the same side if the pattern. |
Whorl | Class of fingerprints that includes ridge patterns that are generally rounded or circular in shape and have two deltas. |
Arch | Class of fingerprints characterized by the ridge lines that enter the print from one side and flow out the other side. |
Visible print | Fingerprint made when the finger deposits a visible material such as ink, dirt, or blood onto a surface. |
Plastic print | Fingerprint impressed on a soft surface. |
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