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Post Number: 245 Registered: 03-1997
| Posted on Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 04:20 pm: |
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Many laboratories use the terms fragmentary or partial prints to refer to impressions that cannot be determined to be finger versus palm prints due to the limited/partial information present in the impression. Others refer to such impressions as "latent finger or palm prints." You might think of a "normal" latent fingerprint as being oval-shaped... with partial impressions recording considerably less than an oval shaped area. The term partial print is generally not used when referring to record (inked or live scan) impressions. |