Fingerprint Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. fingerprint pattern which flows in the direction of the ulna bone, toward the little finger
  2. 6. type of pattern in which the ridges enter upon one side, make a rise or wave in the center and flow or tend to flow out upon the opposite side
  3. 7. impression fingerprints
  4. 11. loop whorl consists of at least one recurving ridge
  5. 13. the least common fingerprint pattern
  6. 15. looks like a bull's eye with two deltas
  7. 16. a type of biometric system that uses digital imaging to capture a fingerprint
  8. 19. product of an acid with a base
  9. 21. Glands a small gland that secretes sweat, situated in the dermis of the skin
  10. 22. invisible fingerprints
  11. 23. used to dectect fingerprints
  12. 24. the way a plastic printcould be left behind
  13. 25. outermost layer of skin
Down
  1. 1. a type of print pattern that consists of two separate loop formations with two separate and distinct sets of shoulders and two deltas
  2. 3. the most common fingerprints pattern
  3. 4. the small, precise, or trivial details of something
  4. 5. A loop fingerprint pattern which flows in the direction of the radius bone
  5. 8. used to develop latent fingerprints
  6. 9. a combination of two different types of patterns with the exception of the plain arch
  7. 10. a small gland in the skin which secretes a lubricating oily matter into the hair follicles to lubricate the skin and hair
  8. 12. the use of the fingers and hands to communicate and convey ideas, as in the manual alphabet used by hearing-impaired and speech-impaired people
  9. 14. visible fingerprints
  10. 17. an opening of a sweat gland to the surface of the skin
  11. 18. middle layer of skin
  12. 20. a fingerprint pattern which possesses either an angle, an upthrust, or two of the three basic characteristics of a loop