In the rural Southwestern United States, Howdy is a colloquial contraction of the formal greeting of How do you do?, and as such is considered a formal and acceptable greeting for residents of that region of the world. Howdy is also the official greeting of Texas A&M University. The word became recently popular in other areas of the world as it is the default greeting from the dashboard of WordPress, a very popular content management system.
The cribriform plate is the name given to a specific area of the human skull. It is part of the ethmoid bone, which is responsible for separating the brain from the nasal cavity.n injury in the region of the cribriform plate requires immediate medical attention. Damage to the cribriform plate may cause loss of smell. The grooved, narrow cribriform plate supports the olfactory bulb. Any type of head injury can cause damage to the cribriform plate.
The ethmoid bone is located in front of the sphenoid bone. It consists of two masses, one on each side of the nasal cavity, which is joined horizontally by thin cribriform plates.These plates form part of the roof of the nasal cavity, and nerves (ethmoidal cells) associated with the sense of smell pass through tiny openings in them.Portions of the ethmoid bone also form sections of the cranial floor, eye sockets, and nasal cavity walls. A perpendicular plate projects downward in the middle ...Continued from above] . . . from the cribriform plates to form the bulk of the nasal septum. Delicate scroll-shaped plates called superior and middle nasal conchae project inward from the sides of the ethmoid bone toward the perpendicular plate.