Forensics Ch. 6 Fingerprints Vocabulary (15)

A concealed fingerprint made visible through the use of poweder or forensic techniques.

• plastic fingerprint
• latent fingerprint
• patent fingerprint
• minutiae

A fingerprint in which the pattern originates on one side and exits the other.

• whorl
• loop
• arch
• delta

The number of ridges between the center of a delta and the core of a loop

• ten card
• minutiae
• delta
• ridge count

a three dimensional fingerprint made in soft material

• latent fingerprint
• patent fingerprint
• plastic fingerprint
• minutiae

a fingerprint pattern that resembles a bull's eye

• loop
• ten card
• whorl
• core

the recognizable pattern of the ridges found on the pads of fingers

• ridge pattern
• ridge count
• ten card
• core

a center of a loop

• delta
• whorl
• core
• minutao

a fingerprint in which the pattern flows inward and returns in the direction of the origin

• minutiae
• loop
• whorl
• arch

a form used to record and preserve a person's fingerprints

• ridge count
• IAFIS
• ten card
• delta

a visible fingerprint produced when fingers coated with a substance touch a surface

• patent fingerprint
• latent fingerprint
• plastic fingerprint
• minutiae