1.1.3 Flashcards
What is the outermost layer of hair called?
Cuticle
What is the second layer of hair called?
Cortex
What is the innermost layer of the hair called?
Medulla
What is a minutiae?
Tiny fingerprint ridge details.
What is a fork?
When a minutiae forms a fork shape, the line ends and branches into two curved lines before stopping.
What is a ridge ending?
When a minutiae has three lines running parallel to each other and the middle one ends while the others continue.
What is a short ridge?
When a minutiae has two lines running parallel to each other and a small line fragment is in between them.
What is a dot?
When a minutiae has two lines running parallel to each other and a singular dot is in between them.
What is a bridge?
When a minutiae has two lines running parallel to each other and the line is between them, linking them together, like a bridge.
What is a hook?
When a minutiae has two lines running parallel to each other and one like as a short line the shape of the hook hanging off of it, pointed inwards.
What is a eye?
When a minutiae has one line the curves off into two and comes back together, creating the illusion that there is a circle placed in the middle of the line, breaking up the line.
What is a double fork?
When a fork pattern has one line of the fork break up again into another fork.
What is a delta?
When three lines connect together in a spiral motion, or form an x without a forth line.
What is a triple fork?
When a minutiae breaks up into the fork pattern but instead of the middle line splitting it continues alongside the forks.
