2006-08-30 05:57:13 · 3 answers · asked by james 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
it depends on how deep the skin is damaged. If you just take of the epidermal layer (dead skin cells and full-grown living epithelial cells) then the fingerprints would grow back. If you destroyed the dermis (where the new skin cells develop) then your fingerprints would not grow back. Of course, that would leave you with badly scarred fingerprints that would probably be pretty easy to recognize anyway.
if you have ever gotten a dep cut on your finger, you will have a scar across your fingerprint. It's pretty much the same idea.
2006-08-31 06:54:19 · answer #1 · answered by helper59 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can scar the tissue enough to essentially
"delete" the major part of the fingerprint. Didn't Dillinger try that, but did so only right in the middle of his fingerprint? However, they roll the fingers and take palmprints too.
And would not his fingers have been exquisitely damaged for the following few weeks? That scene was pure symbolism for erasing his identity, in case "thick" people did not get it with all the other imagery.
Ah, the mysteries of fiction.
2006-09-01 23:13:45 · answer #2 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless scarring occurs, sure.
2006-08-30 13:00:36 · answer #3 · answered by ceprn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋