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Unit 2 Vocabulary

Forensic Science Fingerprinting

10 cards·by spencerportmorris
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An impression made by ridge patterns on the top of a finger.
Fingerprint
The study of fingerprints.
Dactyloscopy
A fingerprint pattern with 1 or more ridges entering from 1 side, curving, then going out the same side entered.
Loop
A triangular area found in all loop and whorl patterns.
Delta
A fingerprint pattern with at least 2 deltas and a core.
whorl
A fingerprint pattern with no delta or core where all ridges enter one side and exit the other.
arch
The fine structure of ridge characteristics in fingerprints.
minutiae
Fingerprint left by a finger that has touched a colored material.
visible print
Fingerprint made by the deposit of perspiration, invisible to the naked eye until developed.
latent print
A 3-dimensional print made as an indentation in soft material.
plastic print