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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. An agar plate is a Petri dish that contains a growth medium (typically agar plus nutrients) used to culture microorganisms or small plants like the moss Physcomitrella patens. Selective growth compounds may also be added to the media, such as antibiotics.gar plates may also be indicator plates, in which the organisms are not selected on the basis of growth, but are instead distinguished by a color change in some colonies, typically caused by the action of an enzyme on some compound added to the medium.