to inquire more about their origins. When I first began reading, I eagerly anticipated acquiring new skills that would sharpen my diagnostic acumen or learning new insights about cutaneous morphogenesis. I was disappointed in both expectations. The majority of the studies presented show statistical trends in the quantitative or qualitative examination of ridges in different populations. Thus, t...

Dermatoglyphics is the science which deals with study of dermal ridge configuration on digits, palmsand soles. Etymologically this term harmonious blend two words Derma – skin; Glyphe carve. It givesthe impression that something has been carved out skin. The entire human body clothed theskin happens to be largest and most important organ body. However, skin ventralsides hands plantar sides feet...

When a hand has no thumb ridge configurations in the proximal palm are distorted. There is no axial triradius, and the ridges run transversely across the palm. This unusual arrangement was reported in German cases of thalidomide poisoning by Pfeiffer and zu Berge (1964). Since that time the characteristic alignment has been found not only in English cases of thalidomide poisoning with radial dy...

Background Dermatoglyphics could assist in the diagnosis of congenital abnormalities. The aim of this study was to identify the dermatoglyphic patterns (finger print pattern type, total ridge count of each finger, a-b ridge count, and articulotrochanteric distance [ATD angles]) in the parents of cystic fibrosis children. Materials and Methods We recruited 75 parents of children with cystic fibr...