latents

While ubiquitous, "latents" often include only part of the finger-maybe just a few ridges-and sometimes are left on textured materials, adding even more challenges.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

"We lifted eighteen partial latents, twelve partial visibles."

Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010

She watched him drop some markers around the pole saw, photograph it from several angles to document its position on their arrival at the crime scene, then get his fingerprint kit out of his carrying case and dust the handle for latents.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

Blue-spectrum radiance always suffused the criminalistics bureau at police headquarters, emanating from the confined spaces where lab rats and investigators would peer into microscopes, hunch over dusting stations, and stand at forensic exam tables in their gloves, goggles, and smocks, studying latents and biologicals under a range of light sources.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

June 8, 2009 at 6:30 am such teh greatness n latents!

Iz got a flat stomach in .25 seconds - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

Any other evidence by DNA evidence or latents or anything else that might provide forensic value from this item will have to be determined by the crime laboratory.

CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2008 2008

For example, the police had always claimed that their best fingerprint match with Gary came from a window screen at the home of Kathleen Woodruff, but the officers who dealt with the crime scene had recorded there were “no legible latents [print marks made visible when treated with chemical powder] developed.”

The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007

Back at the lab—which is a very modern lab for a town the size of Cape October—the boys print the latents they lifted at the Shell station, and run them first through their own Bureau of Criminal Identification, but they come up with nothing on the multitude of stuff they gathered.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

Back at the lab—which is a very modern lab for a town the size of Cape October—the boys print the latents they lifted at the Shell station, and run them first through their own Bureau of Criminal Identification, but they come up with nothing on the multitude of stuff they gathered.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

Back at the lab—which is a very modern lab for a town the size of Cape October—the boys print the latents they lifted at the Shell station, and run them first through their own Bureau of Criminal Identification, but they come up with nothing on the multitude of stuff they gathered.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005