Comment on Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)Comments−actually_a_dog4yDid anybody pick up on how the fingerprint doesn't come back? I wonder why that is.−stavros4yI sliced off a fingertip once and it grew back, fingerprint and all. It's a fingerprint, though, I'm not sure it's the fingerprint.−pugworthy4yCommented separately, but I had a sliced off thumb print come back. Good 1/8" off the face of my thumb.−Gunax4yI have heard that fingerprints are not genetic, but instead form in utero from the random motions of amniotic fluid.
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Did anybody pick up on how the fingerprint doesn't come back? I wonder why that is.
I sliced off a fingertip once and it grew back, fingerprint and all. It's a fingerprint, though, I'm not sure it's the fingerprint.
Commented separately, but I had a sliced off thumb print come back. Good 1/8" off the face of my thumb.
I have heard that fingerprints are not genetic, but instead form in utero from the random motions of amniotic fluid.