Bertillon system

(definition) by Webster 1913 Sun Jan 15 2006 at 17:40:01

Ber`til`lon" sys"tem (?). [After Alphonse Bertillon, French anthropologist.]

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

 

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