Bodily Decay
This is the name for the cooling of the body after death occurs
What is algor mortis?
What is how long the person died after their last meal?
This is the man who first suggested identifying people based on their fingerprinting patterns.
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
This is the most common class of fingerprints.
What are loops?
This is a line splitting into two different ridges.
This is the name for the body becoming rigid after a significant amount of time
What is rigor mortis?
This is where food is found after up to three hours of digestion
What is the stomach?
This is what causes fingerprints to form.
What is temperature and conditions within the womb?
This is the difference between a plain and a tented arch.
What is a spike in the middle of the print?
This is a line connecting two ridges to one another.
This is the name of the pooling of blood that occurs from gravity after death.
What is livor mortis?
This is where found will be found after 3 - 6 hours of digestion
What is within the first half of the intestine?
Fingerprints are this, meaning no two matching ones have ever been found
What is an individual characteristic?
These are the triangular shapes that can be found in most prints.
What are deltas?
This is a ridge splitting into three separate paths.
What is a trifurcation?
This is where food can be found after 6 - 8 hours of digestion
What is in the second half of the intestine?
This can cause a fingerprint pattern to change.
What is nothin? Patterns can't change, but prints can.
What is an ulnar loop?
This is how many Galton's Details you need similar for a match to be 100%.
What is 12?
What are bones and teeth?
This is where food can be found after over 8 hours, besides the large intestine and the colon.
What is outside of the body?
This is the technical name of fingerprints.
What are dactylograms?
This is the whorl that does not cross a line drawn between the two deltas.
What is a central pocket whorl?
This is the other name for Galton's details.
What are points of identity or minutiae?