Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a system or procedure for identifying persons;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bertillon system \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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Bertillon system
n 1: a system or procedure for identifying persons