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Noun: cheiloscopy
  1. A forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lip traces.
    "Lip prints and their study, cheiloscopy, have been the topic of research and are also occasionally mentioned in literature by a detective, a crime scene investigator, or an examiner in another field of evidence comparison."

Type of: forensics

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