Key Facts
- Clients often worry that finger injuries will affect their fingerprints.
- We focus on specific pattern areas rather than fingertips.
- A pattern area includes cores, deltas, and ridges of loops and whorls.
- Pattern areas are enclosed by Type Lines, which will be discussed later.
- For more information on fingerprint anatomy and identification, visit our Fingerprint Science hub.
Sometimes our clients have injured the tips of their fingers and express concern that this will affect their fingerprints. We explain to them that we are interested in specific pattern areas that do not include their fingertips.
A pattern area is that part of a loop or whorl encompassing cores, deltas, and ridges.
Pattern areas of loops and whorls are enclosed by Type Lines, which we can address in another post.
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