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skin ridge

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Fingerprints left by normal contact between the fingers and hard surfaces are known as latent prints and are formed by the perspiration through a row of pores in each skin ridge.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "minutiae describes the location on a fingerprint where a friction skin ridge begins, terminates, or splits into two or more ridges.
 
 
 
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