Fingerprint Classification and Identification Quiz

A person with special and competent knowledge of a subject.

The large cushion below the base of the big toe.

Patterns with extreme complexities that cannot be assigned definite, specific interpretations.

A single ridge which forks or splits into two ridges.

The placing in a fingerprint card the results of the interpretation of all ten patterns.

A ridge made up of more than one sweat pore and is shorter than most of the other ridges in a pattern.

On each side of a loop, where the ridge definitely begins and stops its recurve.

Abnormality in the embryological process of different growth.

Ridge count or ridge trace symbols of the patterns on the index, middle, and ring fingers of both hands.

The ridge count of the loop on the right little finger.

Basic boundaries of most fingerprints, formed by ridges running parallel.

Ending ridges rising at a sufficient degree from the horizontal plane.

Prints made by fingers smeared with colored substances, visible to the naked eye.

Finding a previously filed duplicate record card of the subject.

It may aid in comparison if it exhibits a pattern.

To make the moisture left by the ridges adhere to the print.

The study of character or behavior through the use of fingerprints.

Converging ridges are angular and serve as a point of convergence, while cores are the center of the pattern.

The exit of a loop formation pointing towards the fingertips.

A delta is a point on the ridge formation at the divergence of the type lines.

Successful identification.

Friction ridge characteristics on the palmar surface of the human hand.

Only the center of the friction ridge pattern.

Identification by means of pores.

The direction in which the exit of the loop formation points.

The process of counting the ridges that touch or cross an imaginary line drawn between the core and delta of a loop.

The entire ridge pattern of the nail joint of the finger.