FS Hair and Fiber Vocab

Front

Amorphous

Back

Having no specific structure; Fibers that lack a distinct shape and are soft, stretchy, and absorbent

Front

Class Evidence

Back

material that connects an individual or thing to a certain group

Front

Comparison Microscope

Back

A microscope that allows side by side comparison

Front

Coronal

Back

scale pattern that looks like a stack of crown-like scales

Front

Cortex

Back

the middle layer of the hair shaft which provides the strength, color and texture of a hair fiber

Front

Crystalline

Back

Regularly formed; stiff and durable because to the polymer strands that are piled one on top of the other.

Front

Cuticle

Back

the tough outer layer of a hair made up of overlapping scales

Front

Direct Transfer

Back

evidence moving from victim to suspect or vice versa, such as a fiber.

Front

Fiber

Back

A textile's smallest indivisible unit must be at least 100 times longer than it is wide.

Front

Hair Follicle

Back

a hair's actively growing root or base that contains DNA and live cells