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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